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About the Role
Validus Risk Management is establishing a new Client Onboarding & Trading Enablement team to strengthen and scale pre-trade capabilities. This role is ideal for a recent graduate seeking to build a foundation in financial markets infrastructure and pre-trade controls, impacting time-to-trade, data integrity, and straight-through processing.
Responsibilities
- Assist in coordinating the end-to-end onboarding process for new clients and counterparties.
- Liaise with internal KYC/AML, tax, credit and documentation teams to gather required information.
- Track onboarding progress against SLAs and escalate delays appropriately.
- Support client communications related to onboarding requirements and timelines.
- Support collection and review of KYC documentation.
- Work closely with compliance teams to ensure regulatory requirements are met.
- Maintain organised records and audit trails of onboarding documentation.
- Assist with the setup and maintenance of client static and reference data across trading and risk systems.
- Maintain key data points including legal entity details, LEIs, SSIs, and Tax classifications.
- Support change control processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
- Contribute to maintaining a “golden source” approach to client data.
- Support product eligibility checks to ensure clients are correctly enabled for intended products.
- Assist with market access setup, trading limits and standing instructions.
- Ensure documentation and system configurations align with product approvals.
- Support pre-trade control checks to ensure clients are ready for trading.
- Assist in identifying data gaps that could impact STP or downstream processing.
- Contribute to initiatives aimed at improving data quality and onboarding efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Accounting, or a related discipline.
- Strong Excel skills (including formulas, data manipulation and reconciliation).
- Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.
- Interest in automation, data analysis and improving processes.
- Strong analytical and organisational skills.
- High attention to detail and control awareness.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work under time pressure and manage multiple tasks.
Skills
- Excel
- Data manipulation
- Reconciliation
- Analytical mindset
- Attention to detail
- Automation
- Data analysis
- Process improvement
- Organisational skills
- Control awareness
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Python
- Alteryx
- VBA
- Power BI
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Recent graduate
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration package (salary + bonus)
- Health care
- Retirement plans
- Financial support towards professional qualifications
About the Company
- Validus Risk Management is an independent technology-enabled advisory firm specialising in the management of FX, interest rate and other market risks.
- We work with institutional investors, fund managers, and portfolio companies to design and implement strategies to measure, manage and monitor financial market risk, using a market-tested combination of specialist consulting services, trade execution and innovative risk technology.
- Share in our mission to become the largest and most respected specialist provider of financial market risk services in the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Validus is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.