Derivatives Documentation Team Lead

**Job Title: Derivatives Documentation Team Lead**

**Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President**

**Location: Chester**

**Role Description**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the EMEA Documentation Team for an AVP / band 5 level role, based in Chester.

The Derivatives Confirmation team are seeking a professional individual to act as a team lead within a space that covers a variety of processes: review counterparty queries on legal language used in documentation for a variety of Equity Derivatives products, negotiate Master Confirmation Agreements for Equity Derivatives and back-to-front Confirmation process for Commodity Derivatives while partnering with Sales, Trading, Legal, and any other relevant internal stakeholders based across the globe.

**Responsibilities**
- Act as a Team Lead within the derivatives confirmation space.
- Mitigate operational risk by demonstrating excellent attention to detail
- Demonstrate business acumen and the ability to liaise competently with internal partners and escalate when appropriate
- Strive to exceed all regulatory and internal target metrics
- Communicating effectively with internal and external partners in order to build productive working relationships
- Capture RCA (Root Cause Analysis) data to identify process enhancements and/or improved controls
- Ability to adapt quickly to changes in the market, regulatory and internal business environment

**The Team**:
The Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) & Derivative Core Operations (FDCO) team perform end to end trade control, confirmation and settlements processes across FICC businesses and provides utility OTC derivative confirmation and settlement services for non FICC businesses.

Within FDCO, the teams provide multiple services such as FICC trade control, Foreign Exchange (FX) electronic matching and settlement, Over the Counter (OTC) derivative confirmation and settlement, and commodities operations.

**Core Skills**:

- Experience supervising / leading a team
- Experience working within a regulated environment
- Ability to work independently and to use own initiative to identify and resolve issues
- Accept ownership of issues and ensure that they are resolved in a timely manner
- Share any learning with teammates across the globe
- Excellent attention to detail with high accuracy levels
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Confident personality to deal with people of different levels of seniority internally and externally
- Experienced with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Knowledge of Equity or Commodity Derivatives and relevant ISDA Definitions is preferred but not essential

**Bank of America**:
Every day, across the globe, our employees bring a commitment to our purpose and to driving responsible growth by living our values: deliver together, act responsibly, realize the power of our people and trust the team. A key aspect of driving responsible growth is doing so in a sustainable manner, a critical pillar of which is being a great place to work for our teammates.

In line with these values, in EMEA we have 9 Employee Networks, a wide range of Sports & Social clubs, and other development and networking opportunities so that you can enjoy a range of experiences and connect with colleagues across the bank. We also offer exclusive discounts to some of the most iconic cultural experiences for you to enjoy in your spare time outside of work. Learn more about our benefits here.

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

**Job Band**:
H5

**Shift**:
**Hours Per Week**:
35

**Weekly Schedule**:
**Referral Bonus Amount**:
0