Manager - ETD & Commodities

• Support for all House Franchises across all relevant Business lines trading Exchange Traded Derivatives
• Own query remediation, trade life-cycling and other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation, in order to minimise risk.
• Understand the Futures & Options products lifecycle across Rates, Commodities, FX & Equities from front to back and be the subject matter expert and go-to person for the core systems processing.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovate:
• Partner with Technology to deliver transformation.
• Work with FM to identify process improvements and drive efficiency.
• Face of Operations to Sales and Trading Desks locally - primary point of contact:
• Insulate FM from post execution processing / queries, represent Operations functions.
• Build team profile with the Front Office
• Stakeholder engagement, 2-way flow of information - “Trusted Advisor”
• New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives.
• Constantly seek opportunities to improve global consistency, work closely with the Hubs and other regions to close gaps and standardise processes.
• Communicate with trading desks & COO to solve immediate day to day issues with transactions as well as understand their longer terms needs to shape business decisions in Operations.
• Build strong relationship with direct colleagues in Bangalore, London & New York ETD Ops as well as Singapore Clearing Technology to facilitate efficient communications and speedy resolutions of issues:
• Identify and close knowledge gaps within the Global Team through hands on training.
• Daily KPI monitoring vs SLA.
• Engage with industry bodies and vendors to identify opportunities to enhances processes and systems and drive efficiency

• Be the subject matter expert for MIS, cost-per-trade, touch points per trade - drive their evolution and identify areas to proactively add value through improved data.
• Be aware of, and strive to reduce, vendor costs.
• Operations representation for external/internal and regulator scheduled audits:
• Ensure Audit points are addressed within timelines.
• Achieve regulatory compliance and future proof the ETD Ops model through a strong understanding of current rules and anticipation of upcoming regulations.
• Adherence to Ops Risk Framework standards of implementation and process management:
• Continuous review of procedures & processes

• Maintenance of brokers, contracts, accounts in the banks systems to ensure STP trade flow
• Top Day Trade Monitoring and allocations for ICE Group, CME Group (NYMEX, COMEX, CBOT) and LME and other exchanges as required/ onboarded.
• Monitoring Lifecyle events and clearing
• Trade and Position Reconciliation
• Front Office - Back Office (FOBO) Reconciliations
• Open interest management
• Managing intra-day and EOD cash margin calls
• Option Abandonment/Exercise/Expiry
• MIFID II CPR Position Reporting and CME/ CFTC Large Trader (Position Reporting) to the relevant exchanges
• CME FX Delivery Process
• Balance Sheet Substantiation and Accounting management
• Back Office system processing and EOD running
• Collateral managemen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years Financial Markets experience
• Subject matter expert on Exchange Traded Derivatives with a core understanding trade and post trade processes.
• ETD trade, position, and cash reconciliations inclusive of fees & commission management
• Additional knowledge of expiry and trade life-cycling is highly desirable.
• Full understanding of end-to-end process and systems flows.
• Strong understanding of commodities products including Base Metals, Precious Metals, Structured Inventory
• Product, Energy, Power & Gas. Financial and physical knowledge needed and highly advantageous.
• Knowledge of Carbon Emissions and Voluntary Carbon Credits and experience of ICE Endex and CBL exchanges desirable.
• Good communication skills verbal and written.
• Fluency in Mandarin will be added advantage to cover China Region

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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