Swiss Re

Business Manager – ECM

Swiss Re

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Bratislava • Slovakia

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Salary

💰 €1,900 - €3,300 per month

About the role

  • Working directly with the Environmental & Commodities Markets team as well as NatCat /Parametric Team to determine, on a deal by-deal basis, applicable booking methodology, choice of legal entity, identification of any specific regulatory or jurisdictional implications
  • Working closely with the ECM's Portfolio Managers/Traders and Quantitative Analysis team to monitor transactions performance during the trade life cycle
  • Ongoing transaction monitoring responsibilities to ensure all deal commitments as per the deal documents are fulfilled
  • Ensure full lifecycle mgmt. of deals is supported, from payments/settlements/reconciliations, Collateral mgmt. activities, Large guarantees that are required to be administered
  • TMT approvals for transactions as well as also any LOC support activities that are required
  • Ensure EMIR reporting is set up for specific key strategic ECM clients
  • Ensuring all new client relationships are onboarded and maintained at elevated level due to nature of regulated carriers involved
  • Act as central point of coordination for all deal related queries from PnL, Risk through to investment reporting submissions
  • Close coordination across teams to ensure accurate P&L and risk analytics reporting
  • Ensuring all new products are communicated, tested, and signed off by each support area
  • Provide insight of trading activity through reports and ad-hoc analysis of data
  • Collaborate and build relationships with our colleagues from different teams to tackle issues and provide better solutions for our group
  • Ability to closely collaborate with Technology to develop and improve our understanding and representation of underlying data
  • Working with all stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of projects new business strategies while assessing/critiquing the overall systems architecture
  • Drive changes to the existing system platform or process to meet any changes in internal or external reporting requirements
  • Represent ECM in various committees, Boards, forums and discussions with key business stakeholders e.g., Corporate Solutions, Reinsurance, Treasury etc.
  • Identify areas where synergies can be achieved through closer collaboration with other trading desks and product offerings
  • Collaborate with team members to review assignments, daily tasks and project progress to recognize successes and help resolve or advance issues
  • Work with the AM Governance team and Business to ensure all documentation and desk related Risks and controls (Quarterly RCSA review) are up to date and signed off
  • Support the desk on any internal and/or external audits, given we operate in regulated carriers there are annual regulatory audits performed that require clear hand holding and support via the Middle Office who act as the single point of coordination, and these can last up to 3 months
  • Support identification, capture and closure of operational events and issues and drive mitigation plans with business and key stakeholders

Requirements

  • Basic Financial product knowledge across both cash/ET & derivative products
  • Knowledge of OTC and Listed products
  • Takes initiative, assess, and evaluate operational framework and make recommendations to improve processes and achieve operational excellence
  • Weather, Energy Derivative knowledge beneficial as well as Market knowledge
  • Front to back trade lifecycle knowledge
  • Experience of liaising with multiple teams (Front Office, Risk, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Legal and IT)
  • Preferably experience of working with large transactions (both large transaction approval/onboarding & lifecycles)
  • Strong knowledge in relation to Governance activities, risks, controls, process documentation
  • Preferable P&L attribution/analysis experience
  • Clear interpersonal skills and message delivery at different levels
  • Works well independently and as part of a team, is able to collaborate well under pressure
  • Strong Knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
Benefits
  • Attractive performance-based variable compensation component
  • Variety of global and location specific benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
financial product knowledgeOTC productslisted productsfront to back trade lifecycleP&L attributionoperational framework assessmentcollateral managementregulatory reportingtransaction monitoringdata analysis
Soft skills
initiativeinterpersonal skillscollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingteamworkpressure managementrelationship buildingcoordinationprocess improvement