FirstRand Corporate Centre

Trading Desk Support Enablement Analyst

FirstRand Corporate Centre  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  6 days ago
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Job Description

Join a dynamic RMB Global Markets Middle Office supporting front office trading desks across a broad range of products including Equities, Commodities, FX, and Interest Rate Instruments. This role sits at the heart of the trading lifecycle, ensuring accurate trade capture, valuation alignment, P&L integrity, and end-to-end lifecycle management.

You will operate in close partnership with Trading, Risk, Finance, Settlements, and Technology teams, providing critical oversight, control, and insight to ensure efficient, well-controlled, and scalable trading activity while maintaining a strong focus on risk management and operational excellence.

  • Are you someone who has an interest or experience in:

  • Supporting Fixed Income trading desks through accurate trade capture, validation, and lifecycle management of products such as bonds, repos, and interest rate derivatives
  • Performing trade validation and booking oversight, ensuring adherence to booking models, policies, and governance standards
  • Monitoring and managing the full trade lifecycle, including events such as fixings, resets, maturities, and cashflows
  • Analyzing and resolving trade breaks, settlement issues, and position discrepancies, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
  • Supporting P&L attribution and explain, understanding key drivers such as market moves, new trades, and lifecycle events
  • Validating market data inputs (e.g., curves, rates, spreads) to ensure accuracy in valuation and risk reporting
  • Performing position and risk reconciliations to ensure alignment between front office and downstream systems
  • Monitoring trade flows and STP processes, identifying failures and ensuring completeness of risk capture
  • Maintaining strong risk and control frameworks, including break investigation, escalation, and governance adherence
  • Contributing to process improvements, control enhancements, and automation initiatives to improve efficiency and scalability
  • Collaborating with Trading, Risk, Finance, and Technology teams to support day-to-day desk activity and strategic change initiatives
  • You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline
  • Advantageous: working towards CFA or FRM
  • 1–4 years’ experience in Trade Support, Middle Office, Product Control, or Markets Operations within a Fixed Income or broader trading environment
  • Working knowledge of trade lifecycle, valuation methodologies, and P&L attribution/explain
  • Proven ability to investigate and resolve breaks, including trade, cash, position, and valuation discrepancies
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret market movements and their impact on valuations and P&L
  • Experience working with trading platforms such as Murex or Front Arena
  • Familiarity with market data inputs and their role in pricing and risk models
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; exposure to tools such as SQL, Python, or VBA is advantageous
  • Strong communication skills and ability to engage effectively with traders and cross-functional teams
  • High attention to detail, strong ownership mindset, and ability to operate in a fast-paced, control-focused trading environment
  • You will have access to:

  • Opportunities to network and collaborate
  • Challenging work
  • Opportunities to innovate
  • We can be a match if you are:

  • Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough
  • Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
  • Love putting our clients at the forefront of what you do
  • Are you interested to take the step? We look forward to engaging with you further. Apply now!

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

03/06/26

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

FirstRand Corporate Centre

About FirstRand Corporate Centre

The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The Corporate Centre’s stakeholders are external, such as regulators, shareholders, global developmental institutions and government; and also internal, mainly the market-leading businesses that service the group’s customers. These critical functions cover risk, compliance, governance, internal audit, treasury, finance and tax amongst many others. They require deep specialist and technical skills and ultimately represent the custodianship of the FirstRand group’s licence to operate.

Employees of the Corporate Centre develop a very unique perspective of the group because nowhere else can you own or be part of a mandate that operates across the portfolio. This allows for both big picture thinking and operational learning. It is also a great place to drive collaboration and a place to have a significant impact.

The Corporate Centre has adopted a blended approach to working, with a focus on balancing remote working and connections with colleagues in the workplace. Face-to-face interactions remain important to its way of working as these connections protect the business’s social capital, which is key to ensuring that FirstRand’s unique culture stays alive and continues to thrive.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Sandton, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
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