Trade Support – FX with Securities – Asset Management

Role details

CassonX are delighted to be recruiting for the prestigious Asset Management company that are based in the City of London. This company is renowned for being an excellent employer, where they pride themselves of having a more relaxed working environment, certainly compared to the Tier 1 Asset Managers or Banks. You will be treated like an adult where you will a voice, be heard, and encouraged to develop both personally and professionally. They have a great work / life balance, even hybrid working conditions, and genuinely do their best to look after every employee. CassonX loves recruiting for this company, especially where the hiring manager is outstanding at looking after their staff and running an efficient middle office function.

As this is a contract assignment, we can only consider those with a short notice period or who are immediately available. The contract will last until the end of 2024, but highly likely to extend well into 2025.

To be considered for this role, CassonX are looking to identify someone who has experience working in the middle office and can demonstrate trade support and trade processing activities for Spot, NDF and Forward FX transactions. Your experience can be gained from any financial services institution, but preference is from an Asset Manager, Custodian, Bank or Broker. An understanding of the settlements process will be beneficial, so is exposure to the CLS, Charles River OMS, Simcorp, Traiana, FXALL, TradeNeXus or SWIFT systems, but it is deemed highly advantageous if you also have exposure to other asset classes like Equities, Fixed Income or CFD products too. If you have advanced Excel or VBA skills, then this will be highly advantageous to assist with automating some more manual processes.

This exciting role see you covering global trading desks and primarily you will be responsible for capturing, investigating and resolving any failed FX trades by liaising with the Front Office, Custodians and Brokers accordingly. you will be sitting in a wider Trade Support function, and at times will have to also cover for various other asset classes that they trade.

A detailed job description is available to those who send a relevant CV.

CassonX Limited are committed to providing fair employment opportunities to all applicants. We encourage anyone to apply, regardless of their background, and promote a fair and inclusive recruitment process based on merit. If you require any assistance throughout the interview process to improve your experience, kindly let us know.