India Branch Market Operations - Trade Confirmations Associate

Join India Branch Market Operations and take ownership of trade confirmation delivery across foreign exchange and derivatives. You will resolve complex breaks, strengthen controls, and work across teams to improve accuracy and turnaround times. This role suits an experienced operations professional who can analyse issues, influence stakeholders, and use automation and artificial intelligence tools to improve how work gets done.

As a Trade Confirmations Associate in Market Operations, you will oversee the confirmation lifecycle for corporate and interbank foreign exchange and derivatives trades. You will manage complex exceptions, ensure timely and accurate confirmations, and apply Indian regulatory requirements to daily processes. You will use data and root-cause analysis to reduce repeat issues and lead process improvements. You will also work with technology and business partners to deliver controlled automation and system changes.

Job responsibilities

- Oversee confirmation processing for corporate and interbank foreign exchange and derivatives trades, ensuring trade terms and settlement details are accurate.
- Manage complex breaks and aged or unconfirmed trades, driving investigation, resolution, escalation, and clear documentation.
- Monitor trade population completeness and confirmation timeliness, identify control gaps, and ensure corrective actions are completed.
- Apply relevant Indian regulatory requirements and internal standards to confirmation processes and records.
- Analyse volumes, ageing, break causes, and counterparty trends to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
- Lead root-cause reviews and implement sustainable changes to reduce repeat breaks, manual work, and processing delays.
- Influence front office, middle office, reference data, onboarding, legal, technology, and counterparties to resolve issues and gain support for improvements.
- Lead or contribute to product, platform, and control changes, including requirements, user acceptance testing, implementation, and procedure updates.
- Identify and assess opportunities to use automation and artificial intelligence tools to improve accuracy and efficiency, applying appropriate controls.
- Provide guidance to colleagues and share knowledge to support consistent processing and stronger team capability.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in trade confirmations, foreign exchange or derivatives operations, or a related financial services role.
- Strong knowledge of corporate or interbank foreign exchange and derivatives confirmation processes.
- Working knowledge of Indian regulatory requirements relevant to foreign exchange and derivatives operations.
- Proven experience managing complex exceptions, reconciliations, and control issues through to resolution.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to use data and root-cause analysis to identify trends and lasting solutions.
- Demonstrated experience leading or delivering process improvements with measurable operational outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence, build agreement, and gain support across teams.
- Strong risk and control judgement, with experience maintaining accurate records and supporting audit or regulatory requests.
- Experience with system changes, automation, or technology-enabled process improvements.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

- Experience with electronic trade matching platforms.
- Experience using automation, analytics, or artificial intelligence tools in operations.
- Experience supporting foreign exchange options and other swaps within the desk’s product scope.