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full time

Trading Desk Support Enablement Analyst

FirstRandSouth Africa

Salary

Not disclosed

Job Type

full time

Posted

about 1 hour ago

Closing date

22 Jul 2026

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Job Description

Join a dynamic RMB Global Markets Middle Office supporting front office trading desks across a broad range of products including Equities, Commodities, FX, and Interest Rate Instruments. This role sits at the heart of the trading lifecycle, ensuring accurate trade capture, valuation alignment, P&L integrity, and end-to-end lifecycle management.

You will operate in close partnership with Trading, Risk, Finance, Settlements, and Technology teams, providing critical oversight, control, and insight to ensure efficient, well-controlled, and scalable trading activity while maintaining a strong focus on risk management and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Supporting Fixed Income trading desks through accurate trade capture, validation, and lifecycle management of products such as bonds, repos, and interest rate derivatives
  • Performing trade validation and booking oversight, ensuring adherence to booking models, policies, and governance standards
  • Monitoring and managing the full trade lifecycle, including events such as fixings, resets, maturities, and cashflows
  • Analyzing and resolving trade breaks, settlement issues, and position discrepancies, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
  • Supporting P&L attribution and explain, understanding key drivers such as market moves, new trades, and lifecycle events
  • Validating market data inputs (e.g., curves, rates, spreads) to ensure accuracy in valuation and risk reporting
  • Performing position and risk reconciliations to ensure alignment between front office and downstream systems
  • Monitoring trade flows and STP processes, identifying failures and ensuring completeness of risk capture
  • Maintaining strong risk and control frameworks, including break investigation, escalation, and governance adherence
  • Contributing to process improvements, control enhancements, and automation initiatives to improve efficiency and scalability
  • Collaborating with Trading, Risk, Finance, and Technology teams to support day-to-day desk activity and strategic change initiatives

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline
  • Advantageous: working towards CFA or FRM
  • 1–4 years’ experience in Trade Support, Middle Office, Product Control, or Markets Operations within a Fixed Income or broader trading environment
  • Working knowledge of trade lifecycle, valuation methodologies, and P&L attribution/explain
  • Proven ability to investigate and resolve breaks, including trade, cash, position, and valuation discrepancies
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret market movements and their impact on valuations and P&L
  • Experience working with trading platforms such as Murex or Front Arena
  • Familiarity with market data inputs and their role in pricing and risk models
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; exposure to tools such as SQL, Python, or VBA is advantageous
  • Strong communication skills and ability to engage effectively with traders and cross-functional teams
  • High attention to detail, strong ownership mindset, and ability to operate in a fast-paced, control-focused trading environment

About the employer

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FirstRand

FirstRand is a hiring organisation operating in South Africa within the banking sector. They are currently recruiting for the Trading Desk Support Enablement Analyst role advertised on this page. Visit the official application link for more about the company, its culture and the team you would be joining.

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