Equities Middle Office Operations and Trading consultant

(6-12 + month engagement with possible to conversion to fulltime role

New York, NY, 10019 -Hybrid (3 days onsite)

About the role

A global corporate and investment bank is looking for an Equities Middle Office Trading Specialist in its New York Middle Office, supporting the Global Markets front office during Asian trading hours. You will be the link between the trading desks and back office, keeping trade data accurate and flowing cleanly across systems.

The role covers trade checking and amendments, lifecycle events on Total Return Swaps, Repo and Securities Lending & Borrowing, corporate actions, and market data. It suits someone who is precise under time pressure and comfortable working independently overnight.

Key responsibilities

Trade support and control

• Support Global Markets front office business lines during New York trading hours.
• Ensure transactional integrity across trading applications, including first-level trade checking.
• Process trade modifications, cancellations and trade events (early or partial termination, unwinds) once approved by trading, and report any P&L impact.
• Keep trade information flowing efficiently from front office to back office systems, and between front office systems.
• Investigate and follow up on breaks raised by back office, front office and other internal teams.

Lifecycle events and corporate actions

• Monitor, calculate and validate events across the life of Total Return Swaps (TRS): coupons, resets, substitutions, early partial closing, early exercise, maturity and nominal changes.
• Monitor and validate lifecycle events on Repo and Securities Lending & Borrowing (SLB) trades.
• Monitor and book corporate actions such as dividends, and process related cash flows.

Market data

• Monitor and maintain the market data repository (equities, indices, third parties, calendars) with internal and external providers.

Growth and projects

• Support local business development and increasing trade volumes.
• Contribute to continuous-improvement projects with project, IT and management teams: writing specifications, running user tests and documenting processes.

Qualifications

The source request lists duties only; these requirements are inferred from them and should be confirmed with the hiring manager.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business or a related field.
• 2+ years in middle office, trade support or trading operations at a bank or broker-dealer.
• Working knowledge of equity derivatives, especially Total Return Swaps, plus Repo and Securities Lending.
• Experience with trade lifecycle events, corporate actions and break investigation.
• Strong Excel skills and high attention to detail.
• Willingness to work an overnight schedule aligned to Asian market hours.

Preferred

• Experience supporting Asia-Pacific trading desks.
• Familiarity with market data providers such as Bloomberg or Refinitiv.
• Exposure to UAT, process documentation or system implementation projects.
• VBA, SQL or Python for automation.