A trade support role linking the Front Desk and Operations area in the Japan office of a major global AM company with over 3500 employees in 25 nations worldwide.
Main Responsibilities:
Duties related to Trade instruction process: Creating, Sending, Inputting, Reconciling etc
Data Integrity duties: Security Data, Price Monitoring, Account Holdings, Reconciliation
Other duties include: Corporate Actions, Proxy Voting, Cash Control
Monitoring, improving, and expanding existing processes.
Requirements:
2 to 5 years of Middle office / Back Office experience, and/or some Trading Experience
Basic knowledge of instrument characteristics and settlement processes for traditional assets, currencies, and futures
Additionally, understanding / experience with Options, Swaps, Structured Products and Security Lending is a plus.
Self Driven and responsible person to fully complete assigned tasks. Many occasions work may need to be put before personal matters especially for work related with oversea operations.
Eager to attain the knowledge of relevant products and business processes.
Good communicator and Team playing spirit is a must.
Process orientated mind over solution based
Open minded approach to understand trade support related processes to be able to understand how your job will impact other sections of the company.
Frame of mind focused on productivity; willingness to take more duties, expand team
Preferred to have Process Improvement experiences/skills, e.g. to design/establish new detailed processes, Documentation skills, e.g. procedures/manual.
Strong Risk Control: monitoring and adhering legal and compliance responsibilities.
Good written and oral communication skills in English; strong enough to negotiate and solve issues and participate in Global project, new product setups etc.
Requirement for native level Japanese
Comfortable with Excel/Access, ability to create simple macros is a plus.
For a confidential consideration, please send an up-to-date CV, preferably in a Word Doc format to T2Tokyo.
