Milan, IT,

Operations,

Contract

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The Capital Markets Foreign Exchange (FX) Department is responsible for providing clients and internal stakeholders with efficient, competitive, and riskmanaged access to global currency markets. The department supports the full lifecycle of FX productsfrom posttrade operations and risk managementwhile ensuring strong governance and regulatory compliance.

Operating across spot, forward, swap, and options markets, the FX department enables clients to execute international payments and facilitate crossborder transactions. The team works closely with Corporate Treasury, Sales, Relationship Managers, and Trading to deliver tailored FX solutions that meet client needs across hedging, liquidity, and market access.

Core responsibilities include market-making, trade execution, liquidity management, pricing and analytics, client coverage, and operational support. The department maintains strong control frameworks, ensures adherence to global regulatory standards, and continuously enhances systems and processes to improve execution quality, transparency, and operational resilience.

The Post Trade Operations Analyst is responsible for ensuring the accurate, timely, and riskcontrolled processing of all posttrade activities across the full trade lifecycle. This role provides advanced operational expertise across trade capture, confirmation, settlements, reconciliations, and lifecycle event management for multiple asset classes, including FX.

The analyst acts as an escalation point for complex issues, supports regulatory and audit requirements, and drives process improvements to strengthen operational resilience. They work closely with Front Office, Middle Office, Technology, and external counterparties to resolve breaks, mitigate operational risk, and enhance straightthrough processing (STP). A Senior Analyst contributes to project work, system upgrades, and control enhancements, while mentoring junior team members and promoting best practices within the operations function.

Responsibilities:

1. Trade Processing & Lifecycle Management
Ensure accurate and timely processing of trades across the full lifecycle (trade capture, affirmation/confirmation, settlement, reconciliation).
Manage lifecycle events such as rollovers, resets, expiries, corporate actions, and rate fixings.
Oversee complex or non standard transactions requiring specialist knowledge.

2. Risk & Control Oversight
Identify, escalate, and remediate operational risks, breaks, and control gaps.
Maintain strong adherence to internal controls, regulatory obligations, and audit expectations.
Perform quality checks on key processes to ensure accuracy and completeness.

3. Issue Resolution & Escalation Point
Act as the primary point of escalation for complex or time sensitive trade and settlement issues.
Liaise with Front Office, Sales, Middle Office, Technology, and external counterparties to resolve breaks.
Troubleshoot system or process failures and drive timely resolution.

4. Process Improvement & Change Delivery
Analyse processes to identify opportunities for automation, simplification, and enhanced STP.
Support or lead operational improvement initiatives and system enhancements.
Contribute to UAT, regression testing, and implementation of new products or platforms.

5. Stakeholder Management
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders (Front Office, Treasury, Risk, Compliance, Finance).
Engage effectively with external stakeholders such as custodians, clearing houses, and counterparties.
Communicate clearly and proactively regarding breaks, risks, and required actions.

6. Reporting & Reconciliations
Oversee daily reconciliations (cash, positions, confirmations, nostro, clearing).
Produce and validate daily/weekly/monthly operational reports and KPIs.
Ensure exceptions are investigated, resolved, and documented appropriately.

7. Regulatory & Compliance Responsibilities
Support regulatory reporting activities (e.g., EMIR, Dodd Frank, MiFID II)ensuring data accuracy.
Ensure all operational processes meet compliance and record keeping standards.
Assist with audit requests, regulator queries, and compliance reviews.

Competencies:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills
A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
Demonstrates curiosity
Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Salary range: Euro 40,000 - 51,000

If youre forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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