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About the Role
RBC Capital Markets is hiring a Senior Associate to join the Middle Office Trade Support team within Operational Services, based in New York. This role ensures the timely and accurate booking, verification, and support of Foreign Exchange trading activities, offering broad exposure across capital markets operations.
Responsibilities
- Ensure accurate booking and verification of all FX trades (spot, forwards, swaps) in trading and booking systems with proper downstream processing flags.
- Perform daily reconciliations across internal and external systems, identifying and resolving breaks promptly.
- Process post-trade events, compressions, and backloads according to standard procedures.
- Ensure transactions clear within required regulatory timeframes.
- Manage exception queues to ensure smooth trade flow and escalate issues as necessary.
- Run daily controls to verify trade accuracy, event processing, and regulatory deadline adherence.
- Act as a central point of contact for Sales and Trading desks, internal stakeholders, and external clients, managing queries via multiple communication channels.
- Participate in User Acceptance Testing, system enhancements, and process improvement initiatives, liaising with Technology for resolutions.
Requirements
- Demonstrate consistently high standards of accuracy, identifying discrepancies, errors, and inconsistencies quickly and precisely.
- Perform effectively under pressure, maintaining accuracy and composure during periods of elevated trading volumes, market events, or time-sensitive deadlines.
- Take a proactive approach to problem-solving, drawing on accumulated knowledge to identify issues and drive timely resolutions.
- Actively lead efforts to improve existing workflows and processes, contributing to change initiatives.
- Balance independent working with collaborative engagement, managing workload without close supervision.
- Contribute positively to the wider team, supporting junior staff development, and building strong working relationships.
- Communicate in a polite, professional, and accurate manner with confidence and clarity.
- A minimum of two years of relevant experience within a Middle Office, Operations, or similar capital markets environment.
- Proven track record of managing post-trade activity across a range of instruments and workflows.
- Experience working across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups.
- Solid working knowledge of FX products, including key characteristics, lifecycle events, and post-trade processes.
- Familiarity with platforms and infrastructure commonly used within a capital markets environment.
Skills
- Active Learning
- Adaptability
- Business Appraisals
- Communication
- Continuous Improvement
- Critical Thinking
- Customer Service
- Decision Making
- Effectiveness Measurement
- Internal Stakeholders
- Operational Delivery
- Proactive Behavior
- Problem Solving
- Process Improvements
Location
- New York
- 200 Vesey Street, New York
Work Type
- Full time
- Salaried
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
- Minimum of two years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a similar discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $95,000 - $135,000
- Potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible benefits
- 401(k) program with company-matching contributions
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Paid-time off
About the Company
- RBC Capital Markets is hiring a Senior Associate to join the Middle Office Trade Support team within Operational Services.
- We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper.
- We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that drives RBC’s high-performance culture, enables collective achievement of our strategic goals, and generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value.
- At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC.
- We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world.
- Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities.
- RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world.
- RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.