Support Engineer - Middle Office

$95,000 - $130,000/Yr

F.D. Technologies - New York, NY

Full-time

New York, NY

1,001-5,000 employees

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Middle Office Support Engineer at First Derivative is responsible for coordinating across various departments to implement process and system changes, ensuring accurate trade capture, and providing support for traders. This role is crucial in maintaining the integrity of trade data and resolving issues that affect profit and loss (PnL) for the business.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across different areas, including Technology, Product Control, Business Management, Market Risk, and Settlements to implement process, system and product changes
• Liaise with traders and counterparties to ensure accuracy in trade capture
• Provide support or resolve any adhoc queries pertaining to the booking, p/l or risk representation for traders in the books
• Work with Traders, Finance and other groups to resolve various issues affecting PnL
• Accurately capture trades when assistance is requested
• Investigate and resolve issues causing breaks or failures for the supported business
• Monitor various controls implemented to mitigate risk to the business

Requirements

• Must have had prior support experience within financial services
• Must have had experience working in Equity Swaps
• Experience with a range of other asset classes/products such as OTC Equity Derivatives, Cash Equities and Exchange Traded Derivatives is a plus
• Solid understanding on technical skill such as SQL and Unix