Senior Trading Settlements Analyst

Full Description

This role will be part of the team responsible for the trade life-cycle management of all trades concluded by our Front Office.
This includes confirmations, margin & collateral management, invoicing and settlements.
This role works closely with all major departments, including the Trading Desks, Treasury, Credit and Compliance.

Key Responsibilities :

• Ensuring all OTC and inter-company settlements are completed in a timely manner.
• Assisting in the onboarding of new counterparties by ensuring all static data is correct in our trading system.
• Owning the end of day cashflow report to ensure all settlements for the day have been reconciled and processed.
• Reconciling and settling monthly renewable PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) contracts.
• Performing and understanding the daily global margin calls.
• Produce monthly KPIs for management to show the tasks performed by the Back Office team.
• Working closely with the London-based Product Control team, ensuring all invoicing and cash reconciliations are completed in a timely manner prior to month end.
• Acting as a key point of contact for Compliance, with the aim of ensuring that the team is performing all required regulatory tasks.
• Assisting the Head of MOBO with process improvements around automation.
• Monitoring the Back Office mailbox, owning the distribution of tasks accordingly, escalating issues to senior colleagues where appropriate.
• Responding to Back Office related queries from internal and external counterparties in a timely fashion

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrable experience in financial or energy markets, with strong working knowledge of the trade life-cycle from a Back Office function.
• Excel skills at intermediate level or higher, including competence working with large data sets.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A self-starter attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical and highly numerate, with strong attention to detail.