Head of Trade Management

  • Sector: LMA Asia Finance
  • Contact: Hiong Hao Yi
  • Client: LMA
  • Location: Singapore
  • Salary: S$10000.00 - S$12000.00 per month
  • Expiry Date: 09 August 2022
  • Job Ref: BBBH398409_1658890837

Head of Trade Management, Singapore

Division: Operation

Reporting to: Head of Trade Management, APAC

Job duties:

To assume full responsibility for managing and running of the Operational support of the Trade Management team in Singapore and their associated functions:

  • Manage the Singapore Trade Management Team, supporting the relevant asset classes, ensuring that our business is always supported.
  • Define, and provide oversight of the roles and responsibilities, within the team, providing guidance and leadership to team members.
  • Ensure that policy and procedure documents are maintained, and updated as and when appropriate, to reflect the way in which Trade Management operates.
  • Take ownership, where necessary, of any issues that may arise, in the day to day operating model of the Trade Management Team.
  • Ensure that any cross-training is defined, implemented and completed, so as to not have any "single points of failure" within the team
  • Ensure that any and all information relevant to the team, is disseminated, and understood by all team members.
  • Proactively manage the risk and control environment, including preparing for any regulatory change, in conjunction with the Regional Head of Trade Management.
  • Ensure that the team operates within the parameters of the control environment, acting as a first line of defence to our business, at all times and all tasks required of the team, are completed in a timely and efficient manner, whilst ensuring that the team proactively manages the risk and control environment.
  • Monitor all in-house exception monitoring tools, to ensure that we provide a robust, consistent, and efficient trade management process for our business.
  • Ensure and evidence oversight of any regular intra-day, Intra-week, or intra-month tasks, necessary to ensure that our trades are managed as appropriate.
  • Engage with the Regional Head of Trade management, to ensure that the way in which the team operates, is aligned to the strategy of Global Broking, Operations at all times.
  • Provide analysis and suggestions for process changes, in order to constantly improve the way in which Trade Management team operates.
  • Engage with internal and external control and audit functions as appropriate, including, but not limited to internal and external Audit, and the Business Risk and Control Team, to include assisting with the completion of RCSAs etc
  • Engage and represent Trade Management as a stakeholder in any relevant or ad hoc project, providing analytical, or procedural expertise, to ensure that Operational goals and standards are not compromised in the delivery of a given project.
  • Engage with regional counterparts, and also other Trade Management Managers in the same region, to ensure that knowledge and information is disseminated in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Involve in resolving complex issues across multiple trades/products, and conduct post event analysis, as required.
  • Potential of leading trade management function of satellite offices in the APAC region.

Requirements

Knowledge

  • Good understanding of Wholesale Financial Services
  • Ability to develop new skills and understanding new technology as required
  • Good understanding of Operational Risk
  • Good understanding of financial regulatory landscape

Experience

  • At least 5 years of experience in Senior Trade Management role
  • Experience in leading a team with good supervisory and leadership skill.

Client Focused

  • Communicates effectively and efficiently to internal and external stakeholders
  • Build relationships and networks with both internally and externally wherever possible
  • Constructively handles disagreements to reach a resolution

Innovative

  • Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights. Seeks opportunities for improvements
  • Ability to influence and drive change

Company Reg No.: 201131609D | License No.: 11C4684 | EA Reg no: R21100351