Structured Investments Operations – Trading Services Senior Associate

Join our new Structured Investments team—drive live trades, streamline processes, and partner with Sales for client success!

Turn structured products and funds into live trades. Join the new Structured Investments Operations team, partnering with Sales and Structuring to operate as the desk’s central hub—standardizing data and reporting, accelerating onboarding, working with legal and credit, coordinate bookings and settlements, managing confirmations and fund lifecycle events, and resolving issues fast. We’re looking for proactive candidates who thrive in a new team start-up environment, and build scalable, control‑sound processes. Structured Products or fund experience is highly valued.

As a Trading Services Senior Associate within Structured Investments Operations, you will work closely with Sales and Structuring to deliver end‑to‑end execution across origination support, client onboarding, subscriptions, trade booking coordination, confirmations, settlements, lifecycle management, and fee governance pertaining primarily to fund structures. You’ll drive change and standardization, build tracking/reporting tools, and own issue resolution across internal stakeholders (Legal, Credit, Confirmations, TAs, MO, Collateral, Issuance). Your work will directly enable client delivery and revenue while strengthening our control environment.

Job Responsibilities

- Execute, monitor, and reconcile daily trading operations end-to-end—timely, accurate trade capture; break resolution with traders; high-quality client service—while staying current on market/regulatory changes and ensuring strict compliance.
- Prepare and synthesize management reports and insights; drive process improvements; contribute to strategy in team forums; mentor junior colleagues; and lead ad‑hoc projects with a proactive, adaptable approach.
- Origination support, data & reporting: Prepare recurring client activity reports and market research for Sales; build clear presentation/summary outputs.
- Client onboarding & documentation: Act as key POC with the Onboarding Transition team; coordinate “good‑to‑trade” counterparty set‑ups across cross‑asset systems.
- Subscription period & pre‑hedging: Monitor daily subscription bookings; ensure terms match approvals; coordinate booking amendments and update economics after restructurings.
- Trade execution, settlement & reconciliation: Help prepare delivery instructions; oversee cross‑asset settlements with Operations partners; drive timely booking and reconciliation.
- Confirmations & Deal Review: Coordinate economic and non‑economic amendments with Sales/Structuring sign‑off; verify Deal Review outputs and execute/route changes with TAs/MOs.
- Post‑trade & secondary support: Draft/maintain pricing spreadsheets; manage daily indicative pricing and client queries; prepare trade recaps for TA booking.
- Lifecycle events & fees: Verify expiries/resets, coupons and fees; confirm lifecycle events (dividends, cash flows, tax, brokerage); manage distribution/redemption/CDSC fees, instruct TAs and track payments; support P&L reconciliation.
- Queries, escalations, collateral & pricing: Serve as SPOC for breaks; liaise with Collateral on overrides; own and resolve operational issues with clear, early escalation.
- Standards, controls & improvement: Write and maintain SOPs; drive standardization and desk tooling; automate reporting where feasible; maintain strong control discipline and audit‑ready documentation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

- Extensive experience in trading or financial services, showcasing a deep understanding of industry practices and operations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, enabling effective decision-making and innovative solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, facilitating clear and productive interactions with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, along with advanced digital literacy for integrating innovative technologies in trade services.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, maintaining a detail-oriented approach and strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
- Demonstrated capability to work collaboratively in team settings, with a solid knowledge of trading systems and financial markets, and a strong commitment to delivering high-quality results.
- Proactive, ownership‑driven mindset; comfortable working on‑desk with Sales/Structuring and driving outcomes across Legal, Credit, Confirmations, Trading Assistants, Settlements and Collateral.
- Advanced Excel (formulas, pivots, data cleaning); ability to build and maintain tracking/reporting tools; high attention to detail.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with Structured Finance / Structured Products (fund life cycle, subscriptions, distribution fee frameworks).
- Familiarity with counterparty on-boarding, affirmation workflows, and cross‑asset settlement processes.
- Exposure to Deal Review, P&L drivers and economic vs. non‑economic amendments.
- Automation skills (VBA/Python/SQL) to streamline reporting and reconciliations
- Excellent PowerPoint and data visualisation skills
- Experience creating SOPs/standards and onboarding/training new team members in a founding‑team environment.