About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Capital Markets Middle Office Specialist to join the London Trade Support team. This team provides cross-asset support across Rates, FX, Credit, Repo, and Treasury, working at the heart of the front-to-back trade lifecycle.
This is a high-impact role within a control-focused Middle Office function, partnering closely with Front Office, Finance, Operations, and global teams to ensure accurate trade capture, robust controls, and efficient settlement. The position offers broad exposure across products, stakeholders, and regions, alongside opportunities to contribute to process improvements and strategic initiatives.
You will play a key role in maintaining operational integrity, managing risk, and supporting a fast-paced trading environment.
In this role, you will:
Provide end-to-end trade support for Sales and Trading teams, ensuring all activities are executed in line with established Middle Office procedures.
Validate and enrich trades on trade date, maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Perform intra-day risk and P&L reporting, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
Monitor trading exception reports and proactively resolve breaks and issues.
Manage and repair trades within systems such as OPICS, ensuring timely resolution.
Handle trade queries and support front-to-back reconciliations
Partner with the Treasury desk to support liquidity management and funding activities.
Work closely with Settlements/Payments teams to facilitate smooth trade settlement.
Liaise with Risk and Product Control to resolve reporting discrepancies and ensure alignment across functions.
Coordinate client derivatives documentation processes.
Support system upgrades, UAT, and ongoing technology enhancements.
Contribute to process improvements and strengthen the control framework and governance documentation.
Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams.
Support global Middle Office teams (including US and APAC) as required.
Participate in project work and broader strategic initiatives.
Required Qualifications:
Candidates must have a strong academic background and experience in FX/Rates Cash Securities and OTC Derivatives Middle Office including Treasury functions.
Excellent Markitwire experience essential, the ability to build a ticket from scratch and enrich where appropriate.
They must be analytical with strong verbal and written communication skills.
Good understanding of trade lifecycle across the Rates and FX (including NFD Fixings).
An excellent understanding of life cycle knowledge of Cash Securities and OTC products (CDS).
Good Settlement knowledge across DTC, Fed, E/C and Clearstream.
Ability to work across multiple regions.
Must have the experience with systems such as TOMS/OPICS/CALYPSO/GSF/CATALYST/MARKITWIRE.
Must have advance Excel and VBA experience.
Confident and the ability to work under pressure of a trading floor and deliver on strict deadlines.
Good interpersonal and networking skills to help close out issues.
Experience of change management.
High level of attention to detail.
The ability to operate and enhance the team to work in a highly controlled manner and ensuring all processes/procedures are documented.
Proactive and the ability to take ownership and lead initiatives/projects to close.
Team Player with good communication skills and demonstrate a high level of transparency towards working as one strong team.
Posting End Date:
25 Jun 2026*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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