Equities Operations - Legal Documentation Associate

Make an immediate impact by ensuring complex equity derivatives trades are confirmed accurately and on time. You’ll work at the intersection of markets, legal, and operations, helping keep trading activity moving while strengthening risk and regulatory outcomes. We’ll support your growth as you deepen product expertise, negotiation skills, and process improvement capability. If you enjoy detail, collaboration, and solving documentation challenges, you’ll thrive here. Join us to help raise documentation standards across a fast-paced regional platform.

As a Legal Documentation Associate within Equities Operations team, you will support legal confirmations for equity derivatives across the APAC region. You’ll draft, review, and negotiate trade documentation for structured equity products, partnering closely with legal, trading, and operations stakeholders. Your work helps reduce risk, improve controls, and ensure documentation aligns with applicable regulatory requirements. You’ll also contribute to process improvements that increase efficiency and Straight-Through Processing (STP). This is a detail-oriented role where you’ll balance precision, pace, and partnership.

Our team supports end-to-end trade documentation outcomes for APAC equity derivatives, collaborating across trading, legal, operations, and change teams. We focus on strong documentation standards, scalable templates, and pragmatic process enhancements that improve quality and client experience.

Job responsibilities

• Draft and review term sheets and International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) confirmations for structured equity products across APAC

• Prepare and review Final Terms and Pricing Supplements under an issuer’s Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) program, as applicable

• Negotiate bespoke templates, language, and specific provisions with internal stakeholders, including legal and front office partners

• Assist with preparing and negotiating equity-based Master Confirmation Agreements across APAC

• Resolve legal language questions related to trade confirmations and ISDA definitions in a timely, well-reasoned manner

• Contribute to regulatory readiness for confirmations, including interpreting and implementing regional and cross-border requirements

• Drive process improvements to strengthen controls, streamline workflows, and increase STP outcomes

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, Law, or a related field

• At least 3 years of experience in an equities middle office or equities operations related role within the financial industry

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Professional fluency in Mandarin to support China-related business needs

• Demonstrated experience drafting structured equity ISDA confirmations

• Working knowledge of Final Terms and Pricing Supplements used for structured notes, as applicable

• Strong understanding of the ISDA 2002 Equity Derivatives Definitions and ISDA 2006 Definitions

• Working knowledge of confirmations-related regulatory requirements in the United States (US) and Europe, including Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) confirmation rules

• Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to partner effectively across functions

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience leading or coordinating change initiatives (e.g., regulatory rollout, control enhancement, documentation remediation)

• Familiarity with Python or Alteryx for workflow automation and analysis

• Interest or experience applying artificial intelligence and Large Language Model (LLM) tools to improve documentation processes and controls