Fixed Income Trade Support Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the fixed income trade support position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for transparency to the risks in the Fixed Income portfolios and communicate through written and verbal updates.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Confident, knowledgeable and energetic
• Fixed income products including listed futures, options on futures, G-7 (US and non-US) cash bonds & repos, spot and forward FX, swaps (including swaptions, caps/floors)
• Emerging Market fixed income products including cash trades, and repos
• Global future exchanges such as CME, CBOT, CFE, LIFFE, EUREX, COMEX, ICE, and NYMEX
• Euroclear, domestic settlements and local market settlements
• EFP, EFR’s and GSCC and BONY Settlement
• Work in a high-pressured dynamic environment
• Work together with multiple teams

I am excited to be applying for the position of fixed income trade support. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for real-time compliance advice to sales, trading and origination personnel on transactional and general compliance related issues across GB&M which include fixed income and associated derivatives business lines.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Solid understanding of FRB, DTC and Euroclear processing
• Intermediate knowledge, MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Managing Teams ranging from 5-12 members including Career management of team members
• Previous experience in supporting front office trading systems
• Advanced Excel skills would be a advantageous
• Optimization experience is preferable, including TriReduce, TriBalance and Quantile cycles
• Awareness of current industry initiatives and regulatory landscape affecting OTC derivatives
• Basic product knowledge of interest rate and FX derivatives is preferable

I am excited to be applying for the position of fixed income trade support. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for accurate and timely Performance measurement and respond to ad-hoc enquiries primarily for Fixed Income Funds using POINT and B-One systems.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• This role is based in the Securities Lending Trade Support team in Limerick, reporting to the Team Leader
• Some settlements experience of Crest / Euroclear and International Equities is beneficial
• Understand the products and business supported by the team
• Identify and reconcile trade booking errors
• Perform the reconciliations between SecDb and the various factories to ensure accuracy of Books and Records
• Allocate/pre-match trades in a timely manner
• The main duties are providing highly responsive IT support to Front Office trading teams
• Flexibility to deliver a consistently high level of service within a constantly changing environment with rapidly changing priorities

Please consider me for the fixed income trade support opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for advice and research on Fixed Income products as requested by sales force or Clients.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Good database and SQL skills (Oracle, SQL Server)
• Previous experience in application support, preferably supporting trading systems
• Good understanding of concepts of trading business and end to end business process and workflows
• Good working knowledge of operating system platforms (UNIX, Linux, SQL, Windows)
• Able to utilise core technical skill and apply to a variety of trading platforms, technologies and operating platforms
• Advanced Excel / VBA skills would be a advantageous
• Experience of market data systems such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters
• Understanding of middleware technologies such as MQ and Solace

In response to your job posting for fixed income trade support, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for investment recommendations and sustainability screening for European fixed income portfolios.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience in people management and performance review
• Hands-on experience in supporting fixed income cash and derivatives products
• Knowledge of industry structure, regulations and market development
• Able to utilize core technical skill and apply to a variety of trading platforms, technologies and operating platforms
• Advanced Excel / VBA skills would be an advantageous
• Microsoft Excel and/or Access – other database/query skills
• Maintain and support operational activities related to fixed income trading activity on the desk
• Manage high volume of emails/calls per day from traders, clients, clearing firms