Equity derivatives Middle Operations Analyst

Job Title: Equity derivatives Middle Operations Analyst

Job Location: New York, New York ( Hybrid- 3 days onsite)

Job Type: Contract W-2

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A global bank is seeking a Equity derivatives Middle Operations Analyst to join their New York team.

• Perform end-to-end trade validation and control for equity derivatives and structured equity payoff products, ensuring accuracy and completeness of bookings in internal systems.
• Manage end-to-end lifecycle for global equity swaps and derivatives, ensuring accurate trade capture, booking
• integrity, risk representation, lifecycle events including corporate actions and dividends, and timely settlement.
• Verify trade economics against term sheets, confirmations, trader recaps, and booking models.
• Review and validate complex product attributes including payoffs, barriers, autocalls, digitals, knock-in/knock-out features, coupons, and underlying baskets/indices.
• Investigate and resolve trade capture issues, discrepancies, and exceptions in a timely manner with Front Office, Sales, Structuring, Operations, Risk, and IT teams.
• Monitor trade lifecycle events including amendments, cancellations, novations, resets, corporate actions, fixing events, and maturities.
• Perform daily controls and reconciliations to identify missing, unmatched, or incorrectly booked trades.

Skills

• Strong mandatory experience in equity derivatives and structured equity payoff products within a trade validation or middle office environment.
• Solid understanding of listed and OTC equity derivatives, including options, swaps, variance products, autocallables, structured notes, and other bespoke equity-linked products.
• Strong knowledge of trade lifecycle management and operational processes across front-to-back functions.
• Ability to interpret term sheets, pricing models, confirmations, and legal/transaction documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Experience in investigating booking discrepancies and independently driving issues to resolution.
• Good understanding of product economics, risk sensitivities, and the impact of trade capture quality on valuation and downstream processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to interact confidently with Trading, Structuring, Risk, Operations, Finance, and Technology teams. xhyhwjd
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

Education

Degree in Business Management, Business Administration, or other related discipline