Middle Officer Support Trading Equity

Crédit Agricole CIB

• $100K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in finance, economics, or related field.
  • 3-5 years experience in Middle Office Equity trading support.
  • Strong knowledge of Equity Derivatives products (both Vanilla and Structured).
  • Proficient in Excel, including functions, macros, and VBA.
  • Fluent in English; knowledge of French is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Support Strategic Equity Trading and Equity Investment Solutions activities.
  • Control transaction modeling initiated by the Front Office in the SOPHIS FO application.
  • Validate deals before issuance and link them with order books and term sheets.
  • Monitor invoices and address Front Office to Back Office discrepancies.
  • Manage market data reference, including Stocks, indices, and proprietary indices.
  • Track lifecycle events impacting structured products and Corporate Actions.
  • Participate in process improvement and optimization projects with IT and management.

Benefits

  • Permanent employment contract with a stable company.
  • Opportunity to work within a global Capital Markets Operations environment.
  • Engagement in continuous improvement initiatives and projects.
  • Exposure to diverse financial products and market activities.
Full Job Description
Job description

Business type

Types of Jobs - Operations

Job title

Middle Officer Support Trading Equity

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Management position

No

Job summary

Summary:

Candidate will join Capital Markets Operations (CMO), which has global responsibility for all operational support functions (MO and BO) dedicated to market activities. Within CMO, the Markets Middle Offices (CMM) are responsible for controlling the booking of transactions in CACIB's Front Office and Back Office tools and for managing the transaction lifecycle.

The Capital Markets Middle Office scope includes:
  • Trading & Sales Support Middle Office
  • Collateral Middle Office
  • Securitization Middle Office
  • FO to BO Processing & Reconciliation Middle Office
  • Fees & Brokerage Middle Office


Tasks And Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of a Middle Officer in Equity Trading Support fall within the scope of providing support for Strategic Equity Trading, Equity Investment Solutions, and Global Repo and Indexing activities.

This includes the following activities:
  • Corporate Investment Solutions
  • Convertible Bonds
  • Equity Investment Solutions
  • Equity Finance and Delta One


1) Level 1 & 2 Controls

  • Control of transaction modeling initiated by the Front Office in the SOPHIS FO application
  • Control and validation of deals before issuance, by linking the order book and term sheet (System: Sophis)
  • Monitoring and validation of invoices
  • Liaison between the Front Office, Operations (MO/BO/Cross-functional), and IT Support
  • Monitoring of Front Office to Back Office breaks reported by other teams in the chain
  • Participation and support for continuous improvement and process optimization projects (specifications, user testing, process documentation) in collaboration with project teams, IT teams, and management


2) Data. Reference Data, and Lifecycle

  • Monitoring and management of the market data reference data (Stocks, indices, proprietary indices, Third Parties, calendars) with internal or external providers)
  • Monitoring and control of the reference data for listed Derivatives products (Options and futures)
  • Coordination with BO payment teams for margin call settlements
  • Tracking, calculation, and validation of events impacting the lifecycle of a structured product (coupons, Corporate Actions, early partial closure, early exercise, maturity, notional changes, etc.)
  • Maintaining on-call duty before market opening and after closing to ensure accurate reflection of market information in our systems
  • Modeling and booking of Corporate Actions in the Front Office system


Candidate Criteria
  • +3 yrs experience in MO Equity trading support
  • Prior experience with Equity Derivatives market products is required: Mandatory theoretical and operational knowledge of Equity Derivatives (Vanilla and Structured)


Salary Range: $100k-$120k

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Position location

Geographical area

America, United States Of America

City

NEW YORK

Candidate criteria

Minimal education level

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Level of minimal experience

3-5 years

Experience

Working Experience Required:
  • +5 years


Required skills

Competencies Required:
  • Client relationship management
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Solution- and customer-oriented mindset
  • Proactivity
  • Organizational skills, methodical approach, rigor, and priority management
  • Active listening and ability to step back
  • Capacity to cooperate and propose improvements (preferred)


Technical skills required

Technical Skills Required:
  • Experience with Equity products
  • Strong knowledge of Excel (functions, macros, VBA)
  • Good knowledge of Office tools (Word, Excel, VBA)
  • Analytical skills
  • English fluent; French is a plus


Technical Skills Desired:
  • Knowledge of Sophis


Languages

English

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