Trade Lifecycle Associate – Futures and Options Client Onboarding Trade Limits and Reconciliations

Join our Markets Operations team and help deliver accurate timely posttrade support for exchangetraded and OTC derivatives. Youll collaborate across trading middle office legal and client service while driving process improvements in a fastpaced global environment. Grow your expertise and make a measurable impact on client experience and control outcomes.

Job Summary:
As a Trade Lifecycle Associate within Futures & Options and OTC Operations you will onboard traders and accounts configure trade limits and perform daily reconciliations to maintain accurate positions at exchanges and within internal clearing systems. You will investigate and resolve tradelimit and position issues escalate breaks by T1 and keep procedures current. Partnering with global stakeholders you will identify improvements and basic automations that enhance quality controls and productivity.

Job responsibilities

• Onboard new traders and accounts ensuring complete and accurate setup.
• Configure trade limits on internal and external platforms for F&O and OTC products.
• Monitor limits and risk; ensure adherence to regulatory and control requirements.
• Investigate and resolve tradelimit and access issues promptly.
• Collaborate with Legal Transition Front Office Middle Office Business and Client Service across APAC EMEA and NA.
• Maintain accurate exchange and internal clearing positions through daily reconciliations.
• Drive the OTC offerings reconciliation controls and effectiveness.
• Escalate and resolve trade and position breaks by T1 including feedissue remediation.
• Keep procedures/job aids current and accessible; support knowledge sharing and crosstraining.
• Identify and implement process improvements and basic automations to close gaps and improve quality.
• Lead and coordinate the Asia reconciliations team and interface with global stakeholders.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Bachelors degree in Finance Business Accounting or a related field.
• Minimum three years of investment banking/financial operations experience (e.g. clearing reconciliations trade support).
• Working knowledge of futures and options equities fixed income FX and OTC derivatives.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills; drives accurate timely resolutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; builds effective stakeholder relationships.
• Demonstrated risk and control awareness; appropriately challenges when controls may be compromised.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines organize workload and perform under pressure.
• High attention to detail and strong numeracy; proficient in Microsoft Excel Outlook and Word.
• Experience with basic automation tools (e.g. Alteryx VBA UiPath).
• Ability to assimilate information quickly while maintaining bigpicture context.
• Flexibility to support regional/shift requirements as needed.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience configuring trade limits and onboarding traders/accounts.
• Experience reconciling exchange and internal clearing positions and resolving T1 breaks.
• Experience leading or coordinating reconciliation teams within Asia or global operations.
• Proficiency in query management and reporting/analytics (e.g. SQL basics Tableau).
• Familiarity with global derivatives clearing processes and exchange connectivity.
• Exposure to continuous improvement/Lean initiatives in posttrade operations.
• Crossregional collaboration experience (APAC/EMEA/NA).