Derivative Accountant

Vitol | Houston | www.resume-library.com |
Job Description

The Derivative Accountant will join the Paper Ops team and be responsible for reconciling, validating and processing Vitol’s financial trading activity. The primary role is to mitigate risk surrounding Vitol’s cleared financial trading activity.
This entails reconciling exchange traded financial activity to clearing statements, working with Treasury to forecast and settle margin activity, and understanding settlement procedures for financial markets. In this role you will work closely with the Accounting Department in performing monthly duties such as cost control and budget review and booking relevant journal entries.
In addition, you will work closely with the commercial team to support them in trade reconciliation on a daily basis. This role is performing critical daily and monthly controls. Thus, it’s imperative the candidate recognizes this risk and exhibits strong analytical skills and possesses attention to detail to perform the duties as expected.

Specific job duties will include:

Confirming margins daily with FCMs, including using forecasting tools to calculate Variation Margin and monitoring IM requirements

Reconciling Vitol’s cleared paper trades daily to our FCM clearing statements

Reconciling NGX daily trades

Managing trade and position reconciliation for all Securities, Equities and Bonds

Reporting and escalating discrepancies in financial trading activity timely with appropriate follow up

Budgeting, monitoring and invoicing Clearing and Exchange Fees

Invoicing all Futures, Swaps, and Options PNL and Premiums

Processing financial settlements for bilateral financial trading activity

Calculating Futures Accruals and booking monthly journal entries related to financial trading accruals

Analyzing mark to market differences and reporting when necessary

Overseeing the First Trading Day Control in Houston which triggers month end batch reporting

Facilitating Market Access requests and new trader setups on exchanges

Actively seeking process efficiencies and engaging with the team to action them

Providing information for Compliance related requests

Working actively with Treasury in forecasting large payments as they relate to financial positions that physically deliver

Other duties as assigned
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