Trade Support

The Sales and Trading Assistant will provide front office support to Absa’s Global Markets Sales and Trading teams in London and South Africa. The primary responsibility will be to support the offshore clients. The role focuses on trade execution support, booking accuracy, lifecycle management, and coordination across Risk, Operations, Finance, and Compliance, enabling Sales and Traders to focus on client coverage and market activity.

• Capture and book trades into internal systems
• Support the sales team during primary auctions and during secondary market business hours
• Resolve and investigate breaks and allocations timeously done within standard times as documented by the JSE
• Reconcile trades with back-office systems
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and regulations
• Support trade settlements and confirmations
• Assist with initial onboarding and ongoing maintenance of onboarded clients, working closely with sales teams covering the clients
• Handling the data in Front Arena and MyMI to ensure the trade data is captured correctly to represent client volumes, sales credits across different trading books
• Ensure client revenue and client feedback are accurately captured in reporting systems and Salesforce respectively
• Perform trade allocations timeously in line with market standards
• Work with the Sales teams to ensure that onboarding, credit and legal requests are dealt with efficiently through the relevant areas. Ensure that all client queries and desk queries are dealt with as efficiently as possible

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Financial Mathematics, Mathematics, Statistics, Accounting or Economics
• Postgraduate would be an advantage
• CFA / FRM would be an advantage
• At least 3 years of relevant experience
• Solid understanding of most / all asset classes (Equity, Commodity, Fixed Income, FX, Credit and MM)
• Proficiency in Excel (often advanced)
• Familiarity with Absa trading and risk system, such as Front Arena
• Familiarity with trading platforms (e.g., Bloomberg)
• Strong numerical and analytical ability
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels