Assistant Manager, Trade Support Fixed Income Middle Office

Requisition : 269164

Salary Range: -

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!

Contributes to the overall success of the Middle Office ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

The incumbent will be responsible for a broad array of operational duties including, but not limited to, trade life cycle support trade processing, monitoring, reconciliation, and business line client service tasks.

• Responsible for the trade input and capture of Fixed Income Rates, Repo, Corporates, Lat-Am, EM, Structured Notes.
• Work with the trading and sales staff to ensure that all trades executed daily are accurately entered, confirmed with counter parties, and flow to the firm’s books and records.
• Monitor Treasury announcements and auctions daily and set up the respective securities accordingly.
• Submit Treasury bids to the Federal reserve TAAPS system per instructions from Trading Desk and communicate results.
• Distribute fail reports and ensure the front office sales and trading teams are aware of all fail positions, follow up on aged items to promote settlement.
• Coordinate with external clients to retrieve the trade allocations of block transactions and submit the allocated trades accordingly into the front-end risk capture systems
• Perform front-office to back-office system (FOBO) reconciliations to ensure that all trades entered flow to the back-office system.
• Facilitate the timely settlement of trades by resolving allocation, trade detail, and instruction discrepancies with clients.
• Part of a customer focused culture to deepen business line relationships and leverage broader bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Performing daily operational activities in support of business lines with a focus on trade life cycle management, trade processing and trading desk support.
• Deliver on goals of the Middle Office Strategy as it relates to a Performance Culture. Operates within a high performance environment and team which fosters an inclusive work environment; communicating vision/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.
• Work with their direct manager on continuous operational improvement and being a part of a team tasked with resolving highly complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs across MO with a specific focus on creating tangible / measurable operational efficiencies. This involves opportunity identification, preparing proposals, defining business requirements and processes, developing, testing, conversion and implementation strategies, developing detailed…