Trading Desk Support Enablement Specialist
FirstRand Corporate CentreJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Posted May 22, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The Corporate Centre’s stakeholders are external, such as regulators, shareholders, global developmental institutions and government; and also internal, mainly the market-leading businesses that service the group’s customers. These critical functions cover risk, compliance, governance, internal audit, treasury, finance and tax amongst many others. They require deep specialist and technical skills and ultimately represent the custodianship of the FirstRand group’s licence to operate. Employees of the Corporate Centre develop a very unique perspective of the group because nowhere else can you own or be part of a mandate that operates across the portfolio. This allows for both big picture thinking and operational learning. It is also a great place to drive collaboration and a place to have a significant impact. The Corporate Centre has adopted a blended approach to working, with a focus on balancing remote working and connections with colleagues in the workplace. Face-to-face interactions remain important to its way of working as these connections protect the business’s social capital, which is key to ensuring that FirstRand’s unique culture stays alive and continues to thrive.
Job Description
Join a high-impact XVA & Structuring Middle Office supporting front office trading and structuring teams across derivatives and financing products.
Requirements
- Supporting trading desks by ensuring seamless execution and lifecycle management of client and internal transactions
- Identifying, analysing, and resolving trade breaks, valuation discrepancies, and operational issues in a timely manner
- Engaging with internal stakeholders and, where required, clients to resolve trade-related queries and escalations
- Analysing trade flows and improving operational accuracy, efficiency, and control effectiveness
- Understanding global market dynamics and their impact on trading activity and desk risk profiles
- Driving process improvements, automation initiatives, and scalable operating models across trading support functions
- Maintaining robust risk and control frameworks, ensuring adherence to regulatory and internal governance standards
- Performing and interpreting P&L attribution and valuation drivers for trading books
- Supporting new product onboarding, structuring initiatives, and system/process enhancements
- Developing an understanding of the risk profile of the trading book, ensuring accurate trade capture and risk representation
- Monitoring trading activity, proactively identifying issues, and escalating where necessary to ensure timely resolution
