Jobs in Chiyoda tokyo

Business Overview / Position Objective :

Citi Japan is seeking a candidate to join Spread Products (also known as Credit) Middle Office team. The role sits within Japan Fixed Income Middle Office of the Markets Operations organization. This team acts as a trade support & control function of the Tokyo based trading desks and handles Credit Default Swap, Structured Notes and Loans, and its related margining and life-cycle monitoring.

The role includes interaction with external clients, as well as internal interaction with stakeholders including Front Office, Operations, Finance & Technology and Compliance locally and globally. The candidate will also have the opportunity to participate in a variety of projects to improve external / internal client services, including the implementation and support of new regulation, automation / digitization / innovation, new business initiatives and systems, in order to continuously provide excellence in operational support.

Position Responsibilities :

• Working closely and effectively with team colleagues, the business and other support and control functions to provide a high standard of trade support.
• Ensuring trades are booked accurately and in good time.
• Investigating breaks & inquiries and making the correct decisions to resolve them.
• Mainly supporting Structured Credit traders who run repack business in Japan and coordinate relevant stakeholders
• Monitoring a life-cycle events such as Credit Linked Note coupon fixing and arranging front to back operations to avoid settlement failures.
• Handling a mandatory clearing process for CDS and periodic compression events to support positive impact trading balance sheet outcomes.
• Performing Middle Office controls across daily trading activities & regulatory monitoring and check in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Timely escalation of issues to Middle Office management.
• Work with regional peers to communicate ideas and solutions to create controlled and simplified processes with minimal touch points and maximum scalability
• Maintaining, developing and improving current processes & procedures. Identify process efficiencies and opportunities to create capacity within teams.

Required Skills and Abilities

Preferred Level of Qualifications & Licenses

Job Family Group :

Operations - Transaction Services

Job Family :

Securities and Derivatives Processing

Time Type : Full time