Senior Derivatives Analyst

Derivatives Analyst

We are the Derivatives team that is a business unit within Global Middle Office. We work with Fidelity's trading desks, global custodians, broker-dealers, and various internal and external business partners to support derivatives trade confirmation, lifecycle events, and collateral management for Fidelity managed funds. Core processing and services that the Derivatives Analyst will support includes legal trade confirmation, periodic payments, exchange traded futures collateral, centrally cleared collateral, OTC collateral, MSFTA collateral, settlements, reconciliation, and on-boarding of new products, funds, and broker-dealers. Do you want to be a part of this phenomenal team?

As a member of this team, you will be reporting to the Derivatives Manager, will support the operational activities for the various products managed by the team. You will use your industry expertise and collaborate with your team to complete trade confirmation, complete the lifecycle events associated with trades, execute margin calls, transfer collateral, research and resolve variances and be the first point of contact for business partners. Additionally, you will provide support for tactical, strategic, and regulatory projects for our growing derivatives capabilities!

The Skills And Expertise You Bring

• Four-year college degree in business or finance
• 5 plus years of financial services work experience. Derivatives operations experience preferred.
• Your collateral management and / or middle office experience
• A multi-tasker with effective interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail in following procedures & controls to ensure accurate and timely work
• The ability to work in a small, tight-knit team daily to share responsibilities
• Your ability to recognize and escalate high-risk items to minimize loss to either the shareholder and / or Fidelity
• Innovation to come up with operational improvements
• Your knowledge of Microsoft Office Products (such as Word or Excel), and the ability to train on and work with different operating systems
• Completing trade confirmations and executing on lifecycle events associated with derivatives trading
• Executing daily margin calls, instructing, and confirming settlement of collateral, analyzing, researching, and resolving margin call and collateral variances with broker-dealers and custodian banks
• Providing reporting to key internal and external business partners
• Escalating problems which could have a potential impact on daily operations
• Assisting in the development and review for new and / or changes to departmental policies and procedures
• Testing and automating processes and workflows in a constantly evolving environment

The Team

Fidelity Funds & Investment Operations (FFIO) provides accounting and investment management support services for Fidelity mutual funds and other retail and institutional investment products. These services include calculating and distributing NAVs, distribution rates and yields for a wide variety of investment products; preparing fund financial statements, dividend estimates and tax returns; monitoring delivery of fund trades to custodian banks; processing corporate actions; collecting securities income on behalf of the funds; reconciling, reporting and moving money in support of fund shareholder transactions; and managing fund liquidity.

Category

Investment Operations