Trade Validation Team Leader #209974

Your responsibilities

• The Global FX & OTC Operations and Cash Management is within Global Operations and collaborates daily with Front Office, various internal Credit Suisse departments, and external banks and corporate institutions from all over the world. The Poland team is seeking an EMEA Trade Validation Incoming Team manager to oversee and provide assurance on the timeliness, completeness & accuracy of CS trade validation processes including but not limited to: trades’ affirmation/acknowledgment and paper Trade Confirmations execution.

• Manage the team (5+ FTE), including coordinating across related global teams to ensure completion of daily business and drive the units strategy with the same standards set up.

• Support the global location strategy – partner with the other global managers & teams on various initiatives to standardize processes, ensure proper execution of controls and project releases and fully functioning Business Continuity Planning.

• Review critical indicators and KRI, ensure adherence to targets, mitigation of gap areas, and planning for / implementation of improvements to processes to increase capabilities & reducing firm risk.

• Identification and mitigation of control and risk areas impacting the businesses supported. This includes building a “future proof” model which can adapt to changes to products, businesses and systems.

• Drive efficiencies and automation of functions providing more bandwidth in teams while ensuring all requirements of business met.

• Manage regular reviews and spot checks on Standard Operating Procedures & Process Maps for processes supported against our current policies and requirements, ensuring the alternative coverage sites for BCP are aware of changes and testing completed to ensure support.

• Manage key issues and be key concerns' contact for internal partners (Front Office- Trading Desks, Sales /Relationship Managers, and COOs globally), as well as external clients.

• Manage full adherence with all regulatory and audit requirements of related business, included but not limited to UK PRA entities, CS EU and Singapore entities.

Our requirements

What we offer

Your future colleagues

The team is responsible for execution and matching of OTC&FX ISDA trade confirmations. Every transaction concluded with our counterparts (external or internal) has to have a legally binding confirmation in place, recording the terms and economic details of the deal. The Global Trade Validation and Control teams are working on dispatching and receiving signed copies of these documents whether those are on physical paper or on electronic platform. The products the teams are accountable for are OTC (Over the Counter) Fixed Income Derivatives (Interest Rate and Credit Default Swaps), Equity Swaps, Prime Trades, Foreign Exchange transactions, Fund Linked Products and some Commodity deals. The team is looking for a concerted person to further our strategy and align our functions globally with the focus on strengthening the efficiency and control and seeking further improvements. We are a department which values Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) and is committed to realizing the firm’s D&I ambition which is an integral part of our global cultural values.