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Trade Management (TM) Associate – Name Give Up (NGU) Business
Group Overview
The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.
The Group comprises a stable of premium brands, collectively positioning us as:
- The largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue
- The number one Energy & Commodities broker globally
- The world’s leading provider of OTC data
- An award-winning all-to-all trading platform
Operating from over 60 offices in 27 countries, we are 5,300 strong, united by our vision to become the world’s most trusted innovative liquidity and data solutions specialist.
Role Overview
The Trade Management (TM) team processes transactions for the Name Give Up (NGU) business, as well as Futures: Exchanged-Traded Derivatives (ETD). This role focuses on supporting the Trade Management NGU business.
As a Trade Management (TM) Associate, your responsibilities include:
- Ensuring the accurate and timely processing of all trades across internal front-end trade capture systems, TM platforms, and eventual delivery to clients (via electronic confirmations, physical allocations, or regulatory filings).
- Identifying and resolving trade-related issues while demonstrating judgement in escalating complex matters to senior colleagues.
- Driving process improvements that enhance service delivery and operational controls—acting as first-line defence for trade management integrity.
- Maintaining a broad knowledge of wholesale financial markets, with potential disciplinary specialisation where required.
- Understanding Operations and global brokerage strategy, while collaborating efficiently as part of a high-performing team.
Operating under strict service standards, compliance protocols and risk governance, your role spans cross-functional collaboration with desks, brokers, clients, clearing houses, and third-party agents.
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Key Responsibilities
Core Duties
- Ensure seamless trade flow from front-office capture systems through TM infrastructure, delivering transactions to clients, reporting venues, or clearinghouses⁄exchanges in a timely manner.
- Oversee intra-day trade allocation, liaising with desks, brokers, clients, clearers, and agents to expedite clearing and subsequent reporting processes.
- Monitor and mitigate intraday liquidity risk and exposure, maintaining regulatory compliance standards.
- Triage and resolve client-facing queries related to missing or delayed electronic trade confirmations.
- Maintain awareness of regulatory updates, FATCA, EMIR, and domestic/foreign data requirements, proactively updating the department.
- Conduct external system oversight (e.g., trading platforms, settlement systems) used by TP ICAP.
- Validate data integrity by cross-referencing records with third-party broker systems.
- Execute intraday and month-end reconciliation actions (trade validation, invoicing accuracy, position reporting).
- Provide front-line Broker support, handling trade exceptions and escalating unresolved issues.
- Partner with Accounts Receivable to ensure accurate client billing.
- Serve as a first-point-of-contact for client trade-related issues, escalating where necessary.
- Assumed additional ad hoc duties as needed to maintain operative continuity.
Experience & Competences
Essential
- Attention to detail, complemented by exceptional organisation and proactive initiative.
- Analytical problem-solving skills applied under time pressure.
- Ability to perform effectively in a high-stress, fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written/verbal communication, with the agility to adapt messaging across diverse audiences.
- 5+ years in finance, trading operations, or commodities markets, with experience in a comparable mid-large brokerage environment.
- Strong MS Office proficiency (Excel—bucholting, macros; Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Training/mentoring capability for colleagues.
- Experience supervising trade operations or similar role.
- Robust understanding of operational risk and compliance frameworks.
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Nice to Have
- Familiarity with TP ICAP’s brand, systems, and operational structure.
- Hands-on experience with in-house platforms or similar financial market infrastructure.
- Change management or project facilitation experience.
Grading & Location
- Professional Band 5 access.
- Based at TP ICAP (UK) – Belfast City Quays.
TP ICAP Commitment to Inclusivity & Growth
*#LI-Hybrid #LI-ASO #NIJobs
At TP ICAP, we value diversity, fairness, and potential—not a “perfect” fit. If your expertise aligns, in part, with this role, we welcome your application. Whether it applies here or elsewhere at TP ICAP, we’re here to explore how your skills might flourish in our markets.
Company Statement: Innovation Through Connection
We drive innovative solutions by uniting diverse perspectives within an inclusive culture. The employee network TP ICAP Accord empowers representation, fosters collaboration, and advances best practices—for all stakeholders.
TP ICAP delivers connections: restructuring trading landscapes, modernising markets, catalysing growth, and shaping professional futures.
Why Join Us?
Become a member of the markets, where expertise is nurtured and innovation shapes competitive advantage. Free to take initiative, professionally developed, and supported by our global network—your inclusion is our investment in the future.
Five reasons we stand in the markets: ✔ Agility: Respond to opportunities/risks faster than peers. ✔ Technology: Own leading liquidity/data infrastructure. ✔ Reputation: Trusted across markets, as a challenged operator. ✔ Heart: People with knowledge, drive, and care. ✔ Breakthroughs: Solutions that reimagine how markets operate.
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