The focus for the middle office is on front office deal support. Compliance and risk sitting in the middle office would be team specific and sit within that team rather than being sat in HQ many miles away. Thousands of transactions are settled by middle office every day, with huge sums of money at stake, and these must be recorded correctly. Let's think about a typical graduate role here. So operations roles usually focus on a particular function, for instance, compliance, accounting, and in some organizations, risk management. For example, you could be responsible for working on initiatives to enhance settlement processes. The skills required here are really similar to the front office skills, to which the middle office role is affiliated.