Middle/Back Office Operations Officer - French Speaking

A global bank is currently recruiting for an Operations Officer who is fluent in French and English to join the team for an initial 6 month contract.

The role will be based in Liverpool Street and they will offer hybrid working (3 days a week in the bank).

The Operations department is responsible for all Middle-office and Back-Office processes and controls, responsible for the administration of all the databases for all the transactions of the London Branch: EMTN, USMTN, Samurai, Covered Bonds, Loans and Borrowings, Hedging Derivative transactions (IRS, CIRS, FX Swaps) and other transactions from Treasury activities.

Within the Back Office, you will develop various skills and knowledge in both financial products such as Bonds, Loans and Derivatives but also in the various processes supporting a fund raising activity.

Responsibilities

• Processing of deal tickets, confirmations and associated payments
• Processing of Treasury instruments in the Bank’s core system, Calypso. These transactions include Money Market loans and deposits and Foreign Exchange, spot and forward, Certificates of Deposit, issued, bought and sold, Interest Rate Swap and Overnight Index Swaps.
• Processing of ALM trades into the Bank’s core system, Calypso. These instruments include Floating Rate and Structured EMTN, Interest Rate and Currency Swaps, loans to Group subsidiaries.
• Processing of Home Loans and Public Sector (Covered Bonds entities) instruments Calypso. These instruments include Fixed and Floating Rate EMTN, USMTN, Samurai bonds, Interest Rate and Currency Swaps
• Support Front Office with documentation of intragroup deals
• Checking of counterpart’s confirmations, whether in Swift format or paper form and investigating any discrepancies, deal with CTM confirmations
• Monitoring all payments and receipt advices to be sent via the Swift system, ensuring cut-off times are respected and monitoring receipt of funds.
• Preparing Certificate of Deposit instructions to the Banks issuers and monitoring the matching of instructions and settlement.
• Reconciliation and payment of brokers invoices.
• Management of the corporate action on Euroclear Connect
• The calculation of the ALM Desk funding requirement, input the related trades into BLOFI
• Cash management of the Branch Nostro and internal accounts
• Reconciliation of the Bank’s Nostro accounts

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