Trade Support Middle Office - Analyst

Profile Summary

To provide Middle Office support to the Markets and Banking businesses, ensuring trade accuracy and completeness in front-to-back systems.  Products including Loans, Money Markets, Bonds, FX, Exchange traded derivatives, and Equities.  

Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitoring & resolving exceptions generated in Murex (OSP) & and T0 exception management platform for completeness / accuracy.
• Timely management of these exceptions in trade flow, with appropriate escalation for aged items.
• Responsible for completion of system reconciliations, break resolution and escalation of any unresolved items.
• KRI and Risk Reporting, ensuring our metrics capture Key Risk Indicators and escalate emerging risks appropriately.
• Work closely with technology, establish required system enhancements, drive prioritisation and plan/manage change for the function, raising required JIRAs and following changes through to delivery.
• Contribute towards simplifying any complex, inefficient processes and show demonstrable improvement.
• Ensure the regulatory responsibilities are understood with processes and controls established to ensure compliance.
• Clear and timely escalation of any issues to management, ensuring any risks are fully understood.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Role Experience:

• The role requires knowledge of one or more products including Fixed Income, Currencies, Exchange Traded Derivatives and Equity
• Experience of working within an Operations team dealing with timely completion of daily controls and reconciliations.  Investigating and resolving inter-system trade integrity exceptions.
• Able to be flexible and work to tight deadlines but maintain the very highest standards. 
• Identify risks, ensuring robust control environment and high operating standards.
• Experience in delivering continuous improvement in a Middle Office function, improving control environment and efficiency.

Preferred Technical Experience:

• Understanding of Bloomberg, Murex, ANVIL and Fidessa trade flows and exception management.
• Good working knowledge and experience of reconciliation platforms, such as DUCO.
• Strong analytical skills, exception interrogation and resolution

 What Mizuho Can Offer You

Here at Mizuho, there are fantastic progression opportunities and clear paths to promotion. We will give you ample opportunity to affect change and to help grow our business.

In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:

• Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus
• Non-contributory pension
• 27 days’ annual leave
• Core working hours*
• Hybrid working - office and home based*
• Virtual GP
• Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders

*For applicable roles only

At Mizuho, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

We are committed to supporting equality and diversity, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities

If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@mizuhoemea.com and we will be happy to help.