Operations Middle Office - Bengaluru, India - Squarepoint

Description

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns.

As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms.

With main offices in New York, London and Singapore we emphasize truly global collaboration by functionally aligning our investment, technology and operational teams across the globe.

We are building out our Bangalore office so this is a great opportunity to be one of the first hires in the new office.

Primary focus will be on OTC Derivatives Middle Office who are responsible for derivative trade capture, trade confirmations, settlements, reconciliations and position life-cycle events within the firm.

• Manage all aspects of OTC Derivative trade validation, maintenance, affirmation, settlement and reconciliation.
• Validate process and settle all periodic events to ensure the integrity of the entire trade life cycle.
• Perform position and cash reconciliations
• Perform trade affirmation in Markitwire with counterparties to minimize risk.
• Monitoring T+0 trade capture exceptions in Traiana and internal.
• Processing option assignments and expiries.

• 515 years OTC Middle/Back office experience covering trade processing, collateral, confirmations, settlements, cash, position and trade reconciliations
• Demonstrate/develop proficiency in all types of OTC products including: Equity swaps, credit default swaps, variance swaps, options, asset swaps, interest rate swap, forwards, MBS, FX settlements and any new products that come to market in the derivative asset class.
• Demonstrate proficiency in all calculations used to support any products in your asset class coverage.
• Understand the importance of our team concept. Establish longlasting organizational relationships that will foster a productive work environment.
• Demonstrate proficiency in written and oral communication skills.
• Working on system and process improvements, and new business initiatives