NatWest Group
Securitisation Middle Office Analyst
Key Responsibilities
- Providing operational control and support to teams, ensuring risk identification and management.
- Delivering day-one support for various product asset classes, including complex products.
- Acting as a reference point for the business, building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across the bank.
- Working from home some of the time, with two days per week in the London office.
- Applying risk management principles to mitigate operational risks and improve processes.
- Ensuring team activities adhere to approved procedures and service level targets.
- Promptly escalating risks outside the appetite and developing remediation plans.
- Reviewing securitisation structures pre-close to ensure booking on NatWest Market platforms, finding solutions, and guiding structuring teams.
- Managing the lifecycle of securitisation structures post-close, creating guides, establishing controls, and ensuring adherence.
- Providing support to front-to-back structurers, trading, and sales teams within the markets business.
- Reviewing and advising on structures before closing.
- Validating complex trades booked by traders.
- Ensuring accurate trade bookings for finance teams and Profit & Loss statements.
- Providing internal and external insights to support and challenge business decisions and enhance customer experience.
- Staying updated on external and industry developments, representing the organization on industry groups.
- Developing the people agenda, demonstrating leadership, and implementing plans to improve team and individual motivation and delivery.
Skills and Expertise
- Experience in structured transactions, trade booking, and validation.
- Product knowledge of loans, interest rate swaps, basis swaps, and cross-currency swaps.
- Strong analytical and root cause analysis skills.
- Understanding of the banking sector and how banks raise funds.
- Knowledge of loan, deposit, forward rate agreements, foreign exchange, bonds, and overnight index swaps.
- Background in settlements, middle office, or confirmation teams.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.