Middle Office BA – CONTRACT

GFT Technologies – Proud GPTW 2024!

New York, New York, United States

Location: Stamford CT – Hybrid (2 days onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 3 months (with possible extensions)

Contract Daily Rate: $700

GFT is looking for a Middle Office Business Analyst to join a leading banking and financial services group project. As a GFT team member, you will be part of a high performing team of executives within a 10,000+ and growing, global organization developing and implementing technology solutions for its clients and partners.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and owns operational topics, remediating front end & time sensitive issues always making sure trade lifecycle flows;
• Collect, review, and challenge external client Standard Operating Procedures and daily output, working with also with internal stakeholders to highlight concerns and manage incidents;
• Ensure preparedness on any Industry, Change, and Regulatory initiatives;
• Identify and own opportunities to re-engineer processes & controls from a simplification, cost saving, regulatory, and customer perspective;
• Attendance at regular governance meetings with service providers – ensure issues are raised and actioned, meetings are well documented, required procedural changes are discussed and agreed, audit results are reviewed and addressed;
• Maintaining an effective control environment through review and distribution of policy updates, SOX/RACA identification and creation of controls, adequacy reviews and testing, MI Review and Reporting, and maintenance of governance documentation;
• Effectively manage key relationships and work closely with regional and global teams across the organization including front office, operations, compliance, finance, and technology;
• Perform and deliver project work in collaboration with other teams, regionally and globally, to align with the company’s strategy;
• Regular reporting to management on status of outsourced and offshored activities, with particular attention to any risks, issues, and remediation actions.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Minimum 10+ years’ experience in Investment Banking on similar function with experience in Fixed Income Operations and/ or Middle Office;
• Undergraduate Degree in related fields;
• FINRA Series 99 and/or 7 registered professional;
• Strong front to back understanding of Fixed Income products, Repo / Triparty Processing, and Central Clearing;
• Strong knowledge of Fixed Income settlements, collateral management, and funding;
• Direct understanding of US regulatory requirements specific to Broker Dealer Operations;
• Highly detail oriented, collaborative and enthusiastic professional.

About Our Core Values:

We live up to them because we truly believe they are vital to all of our daily lives:

Caring

Committed

Courageous

Collaborative

Creative

It is values that create a bond between people and allow them to act in unison as a team. In fact values are pivotal to performance.

Check our Videos and Website to Find Out More:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2TaO69jb2M (Updated video – June 2024

https://jobs.gft.com/job/

https://www.gft.com/us/en/career

Diversity & Inclusion Statement:

At GFT we  are committed  to  cultivating,  fostering,  and  preserving  a  culture  of  diversity, equity and inclusion. We want to attract, recruit, develop and retain the most talented employees, regardless of their  background. We are guided  by  our  values  in  everything  we  do, and  recognize  that being  a  diverse  and  inclusive  employer  helps  us  fulfill  our social responsibility  to  make  a difference.