Trade Support, Securities & FX Operations, Nordea Asset Management

Job ID: 24716 

 

We are looking for a passionate and service minded person to join our innovative team. This is an opportunity for you to join an interesting and forward-thinking environment, where you will work on solving operational situations with key stakeholders across the world.
 

In today’s world, change is the one thing you can count on. But whatever the future brings, our customers remain at the heart of everything we do.

 

That’s where you come in. Working with committed colleagues in an exciting, forward-thinking environment, you’ll contribute to meet our customers’ changing needs.

 

We aim to be courageous and explorative in our approach to innovating better ways of delivering banking services – anytime, anywhere. This means you’ll have many opportunities to learn and grow as you build your career with us. Will you contribute to make a difference in creating great customer experiences?

About this opportunity

You’ll join Securities & FX Operations and more specifically the Trade Support team that is mainly in charge of supporting Front office in their daily activity by being responsible for the post-trading related activities. We foresee that trade volumes will increase over the next years, and new regulation making deadline even more crucial. Therefore we seek to continue our work with using data to optimize and automate processes to ensure scalability and efficiency. We have high aspirations in the post-trade space and are working on implementing new strategic initiatives surrounding the life cycle of a trade across various asset class types - in which you will have an important role.  

What you’ll be doing among other things:

• Provide support and maintain a close relationship with the trading teams (Equity, Bonds and FX).
• Ensure timely matching of trades in CTM (block and allocation).
• Liaise with counterparties and trading about mismatches and ensure fast resolution.
• Communicate clearly with the front and back-office teams to ensure operational excellence.
• Monitor performance of counterparties and build relationships.
• Work closely with the business units to on-board new clients into the trade flow.
• Identify continuous improvements to optimise the processing of trades as required.
• Make sure changes and new procedures are documented.
• Participate in projects as required.

The team consists of highly skilled and committed people with various backgrounds.

 

We are located at Christiansbro, Copenhagen but you will be working from Nordea’s Lisbon office (Quinta de la Fonte, Oeiras).

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the four key values that guide us in being at our best. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re enthusiastic, willing to speak up – even when it’s difficult – and committed to empowering others. 

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Be able to challenge the statu-quo.
• Be motivated for taking initiative and be able to speak up.
• Have an interest in data/data analytics.
• Be innovative, curious and forward-thinking.
• Be proactive in looking into process improvement and automation.
• Be service minded and have solid problem solving skills.
• Adapt quickly to changes and are able to take responsibility for developing your own skills.
• Team-oriented able to work in an exciting environment.

Your experience and background: 

• You have +2 years’ experience within a financial industry operations or trading function, from the buy-side preferably (asset manager, pension funds…) where you have been supporting Equity and Fixed income trading desks.
• Knowledge/experience of Equity/Bonds trade processing (matching, mismatch handling etc).
• Knowledge of CTM, ALERT, SWIFT would be a value-added skill (but not a prerequisite).
• Previous experience is using data/data analytics tool such as PowerBI would be a beneficial asset.
• Fluency in English (written and orally) is required.

 

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

 

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 30/06/2024.
 

At nordea.com, you can read more about us, our business and our focus on integrating sustainability into everything we do. 

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