Trading Assistant / Trading Operations Specialist - Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund

The Client My client is a market leading multi-strategy hedge fund with offices across EMEA, USA, UAE and APAC. They are looking for a Trading Assistant / Trading Operations specialist to join their team in London. What You'll Get An opportunity to work in one of the most exciting and successful buy-side businesses in the City. An opportunity to join a strong team with a very high talent density presenting lots of opportunity for learning and development. Incredible career progression opportunities with potential access to all areas of the business. A market leading compensation package including basic salary and annual bonus. Benefits including pension, private healthcare, life assurance and 25 days annual leave. What You'll Do Work closely with Trading, Fund Accounting, Technology, and Risk teams with managing all trade lifecycle events for an array of asset classes including equity products, exchange traded derivatives, OTC derivatives, FX, and fixed income products. Assist with trade bookings, processing life cycle events, support on P&L inquiries, and daily reconciliations. Process trade allocations, affirmations, settlements, options exercise/assignments, and related tasks. Monitor mandatory corporate action events and liaise with multiple PMs and PBs on voluntary elections. Perform processes related to corporate actions for equity and fixed income products. Advise MO/Valuations/Cash Rec teams on system level and/or PB level corporate action breaks. Monitor third-party platforms like prime broker portals and administrator systems for trade management. Work with the Reconciliation and Control teams to ensure the accuracy of internal books and records. What You'll Need 3 years plus experience in a Trading Assistant or Operations role with expert knowledge of the front-to-back trade processing cycle. Excellent knowledge of one or more flavour of OTC or Listed Derivatives products, including Flow Rates, FX, Credit, Equity, Futures & Options. Experience with middleware platforms. Technical experience with Python, SQL or VBA would be beneficial. Problem solving capabilities and a focus of process improvement. Strong relationship management and communication skills.