Fixed Income Middle Office Associate

Help safeguard the integrity of Fixed Income portfolios by ensuring clean data smooth processing and seamless implementations.Youll learn about portfolio mechanics andmaster the trade lifecycle build handson skills in analytics and controls and see your impact in real time.Join a collaborative team partnering with Portfolio Managers Traders Business Management and Client Services.Youll tackle complex data and process challenges contribute to growing our business by supporting new client and fund launches and help design intelligent automation solutions that increases data-quality and speed. We will invest in your growth with training mentorship and clear pathways to advance.

As a Trading Services Associate within the Fixed Income Middle Officeyoull support Portfolio Management by safeguarding data quality overseeing the trade lifecycle and ensuring accurate capture of activity into accounts positions.The Fixed Income Middle Office is a centralised function providing product expertise covering the firms entire Fixed Income product range (Institutional clients ETFs OEICs & SICAVs).Youll maintain realtime integrity across investment accounting and benchmark feeds provide operational steer for new clients and funds and coordinate with stakeholders to resolve issues and uplift controls. You will also be responsible for ensuring that operational risk is mitigated and streamlining processes that enhance client outcomes and scale the platform.

Job responsibilities

• Support Portfolio Managers Investment Specialists and Traders with daily portfolio management queries.
• Oversee the trade lifecycle to ensure accurate booking processing settlement and capture into account positions.
• Ensure realtime data accuracy across investment accounting benchmarks and index feeds; remediate data issues promptly.
• Drive operational readiness for new client onboardings and fund launches; design and implement new processes as needed.
• Provide global business advisory and consultancy to portfolio management trading risk and regional product development hubs.
• Facilitate global business implementation for new instruments markets and regional expansion testing new system functionality.
• Lead and partner on intelligent automation solutions that improve efficiency controls and data quality.
• Oversee outsourced backoffice functions including trade support and settlements; work with brokers on account onboardings and market claims.
• Document procedures and own controls; identify and resolve issues escalate risks and contribute to continuous improvement.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Practical experience in finance economics mathematics engineering or a related field.
• Foundational knowledge of fixed income products (e.g. government and corporate bonds bond futures interest rate swaps).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g. pivot tables lookups) and comfort working with large datasets.
• Internship coop or academic project experience related to portfolio management markets or investment operations.
• Ability to analyze data reconcile differences and drive issues to resolution with a strong control mindset.
• Clear written and verbal communication; ability to partner across portfolio management trading operations risk and technology.
• Strong organization and time management to meet daily and intraday deadlines in a fastpaced environment.
• Attention to detail with accountability for data accuracy documentation and evidence standards.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Familiarity with order management and portfolio management systems.
• Knowledge of reference data and static data dependencies impacting trade processing.
• Experience building dashboards or automations using Python SQL or business intelligence tools.
• Familiarity with trade lifecycle oversight and settlement coordination.
• Experience contributing to crossfunctional change projects and user acceptance testing.