Trade Support Analyst

Our client, a well-known Financial Services firm in New York, is looking for a Trade Support Specialist to join its team.

Responsibilities

• Support the full trade lifecycle across credit, derivatives, and other financial products
• Process and reconcile trade activity, ensuring accurate and timely settlement
• Review trade details and resolve discrepancies across internal systems, counterparties, and custodians
• Support trade confirmations, settlements, allocations, and position reconciliations
• Enter and maintain trades across products including credit, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, options, futures, and FX forwards
• Work closely with the front office, operations, custodians, counterparties, and other internal teams to resolve trade-related issues
• Monitor settlement activity and follow up on failed or outstanding trades
• Maintain accurate trade and position records across internal systems
• Assist with daily middle office functions, including cash, position, and transaction reconciliations
• Research and resolve breaks between internal records, custodians, counterparties, and other parties
• Support derivative trade processing, including interest rate swaps and other swap transactions
• Support corporate actions, loan activity, and other events impacting credit and other positions
• Prepare and maintain daily and ad hoc operational reports
• Identify process improvements and assist with projects related to trade operations and middle office functions

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of trade support, middle office, or investment operations experience within financial services
• Experience supporting interest rate swap (IRS) derivatives, credit, bank debt, leveraged loans, or other financial products strongly preferred
• Understanding of the trade lifecycle, including trade entry, booking, confirmation, settlement, and reconciliation
• Experience with some combination of interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, options, futures, FX forwards, or other derivatives preferred