Treasury & Repo Trading Support Middle Office Associate

Summary

In this role you will be responsible for control and support functions of the operations initiated by the Treasury and Repo Front Office in New York, from the negotiations, recordings, and processing of transactions. Your role will be to facilitate and ensure all operations are processed in a timely manner.

You will be a point of contact and liaise with entities both internally (Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Compliance, IT, Product Control, Risk Management, Project Management) and externally (Clients, Broker/Dealers, etc.).

You will also develop various skills such as knowledge of financial products, financial markets, and best business practices.

This position is based in New York. You will report locally to the New York Head of Repo and Treasury Trading Support Middle Office.

Key Responsibilities

The Middle Office team is responsible for assisting and controlling the Treasury and Repo business line. In addition there is the Global Repo business that will be managed by both Paris and New York teams. This includes trade monitoring, workflow control, and trade validation to ensure timely settlement and accuracy of Front Office’s position and exposure. You will contribute to the development of a reliable and effective control function of the perimeter. You will also have the opportunity to participate in various projects to optimize trade workflow, deploy new products, system enhancements/fixes, new regulations and market rules.

Support Tasks:

· Ensure the integrity of all transactions and positions across multiple trading applications

· Perform first level of control by ensuring trades are booked accurately, cash flow balances are correct, triparty and bilateral trades are matched and settled in a timely fashion.

· Investigate, analyze, and resolve trade breaks

· Process funding and repos as required for Trading and Sales

· Manage and monitor post trade life cycle events

· Manage trades amendments in Front office systems as appropriately requested while confirming the impacts are in line with expectations

· Maintain high level of client service for external and internal stakeholders

· Contribute to the development of reliable and effective control functions while making certain procedures are updated and are in place to reduce operational risk

· Assist in the identification, specification, and user testing of system enhancements

· Ensure coverage and support to FO and within the team to undertake day to day tasks with respect to temporary needs, holidays, or illnesses

· Main point of contact for FO while being the liaison between FO and other teams.

· Act as a point of contact for the introduction of new products and ensure that procedures are in place to manage these transactions.

· Ensure the functional link with the Treasury Middle Office (located in Paris)

· Develop strong relationship with the global Treasury and Repo MO teams

Additional responsibilities:

• Service Quality and Processes improvement

- Propose and formalize any improvements on controls and procedures

- Develop efficiency initiatives

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• Compliance and Governance

- Ensure compliance with Credit Agricole CIB Capital Markets Operations and Credit Agricole CIB New York governance and organization directives

- Promote operational controls and segregation of duties

• Control and awareness

- Exert vigilance to unusual or inappropriate (i.e. unusual, uneconomic, or fraudulent) trading practices

- Alert management and position control team in case of suspicion of inappropriate (i.e. unusual, uneconomic or fraudulent) trading practices or operations

• Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities

- Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the NY Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer.

- Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure through understanding to undertake the role. Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence.

Education Essential

• Educated to degree level standard or equivalent
• Degree in finance preferred

Experience Essential

• 3-5 years

Required

• Previous experience in Middle Office with Knowledge and exposure to Treasury and Repo products.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Preferred

• Knowledge of Collateral Management
• Previous experience in Back Office and/or Settlements

Management and Reporting

· Reports to the Head of Treasury and Repo Trading Support MO

Key Internal contacts

· Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Settlements, IT Support, Referential Data, Risk and Market Activity Monitoring teams

Key External contacts

· External Clients, Interbank, Broker/Dealers, SPV, Trustee

SPECIAL ROLE REQUIREMENTS: Participation in BCP planning and testing

Competencies Required:

Rigor and sense of organization

Autonomy

Capacity to cooperate / Ability to work across multiple disciplines

Strong technical and analytical skills

Ability to analyze and communicate findings to management

Good relationship building and ability to communicate clear and concisely

Sensitivity to operational risk

Work well under pressure

Competencies Desired:

Proactive and dynamic

Skills & Knowledge Requirements:

Fluent in English

Comfortable with learning new applications

Strong understanding of Excel

Preferred

Knowledge of VBA/Macros

French is a plus