Asset Backed Finance Abf Trading Vice President jobs at Wells Fargo in United Kingdom, City Of London

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives including those that are cross functional with broad impact and act as key participant in relationship management and business development for Corporate Banking functional area
• Responsible for developing and enhancing the relationship with a focused list of ‘inbound’ Multinational Financial Institutions
• Strive to broaden and deepen customer relationships by providing integrated, end to end financial solutions to our customers across multiple product platforms
• Originate, structure and execute the largest most complex transactions related to investment banking, traditional corporate lending or their credit related products
• Demonstrate a strategic and consultative approach with client
• Identify opportunities and organize the right internal partners and team to form the relationship team
• Strategically collaborate and consult with peers and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Corporate & Investment Banking Relationship Management, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Corporate finance, capital markets or markets experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
• A proven track record of originating new business
• Solid knowledge of Banking (Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Payments and Trade Finance) and Markets (IRS, FX, ABS, Commodities and Equities) products
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong creditstructuring/documentationskills
• Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

In this role, you will:

• Actively make markets in High Grade Credit Bonds, monitor trading books, and manage associated risks.
• Work closely with Credit Sales to support client flow and build relationships.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance strong client connections.
• Engage with other Wells Fargo businesses to generate new opportunities, including supporting origination efforts.
• Utilise Fixed Income electronic trading platforms and contribute to market development within the broader EMEA Credit Trading business.
• Leverage knowledge of the credit markets, electronic trading, and risk management to drive trading ideas and execution.
• Stay up-to-date with Wells Fargo’s products, services, and client needs to support the firm’s broader trading and origination strategies.
• Contribute to analysis, modelling, and management information (MI) reporting as needed.
• Ensure compliance with internal and regulatory standards, adhering to Wells Fargo’s risk and conduct framework.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Securities Trading, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, especially the Credit markets.
• Experience in Securities Trading or similar, including experience in financial modelling and relative value analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Job Expectations:

This position is deemed to be a Certified Person function under the FCA and PRA Certification Regime. You must always remain fit and proper to perform your role, and this will be assessed on at least an annual basis

In addition to the responsibilities summarised in your job description, you are also required to always comply with the FCA/PRA Conduct Rules:

1. You must act with integrity.

2. You must act with due skill, care and diligence.

3. You must be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators.

4. You must pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly. 5. You must observe proper standards of market conduct.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

About this role:

In this role, you will:

• Produce analysis, reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Prepare marketing documents, including pitch materials, confidential offering memoranda and management presentations to aid client conversations and enhance execution prospects
• Conduct extensive financial and industry market research to evaluate the risk/return parameters of a transaction
• Prepare detailed financial, comparables and commercial analysis such as distribution risk probability analysis with credible recommendations
• Provide relevant and timely support to senior bankers when responding to all of our stakeholder’s queries, both internal and external
• Be one of the day to day operational contacts for clients and engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Carry out and present debt market research on the European lending market
• Maintain the database of clients and loan transactions
• Load deal information to external syndications websites
• Act as the main liaison with the rating agencies and typical securitisation parties developing a clear understanding of ratings and sizing methodologies to help inform loan tranching together with developing comprehensive plan to educate and train staff in such methodologies.
• Collaborate with the DCM desk and sales and trading desk on pricing and distribution.
• Collaborate with peers, process partners and internal partners, including on product knowledge and market intelligence. Identify and recommend opportunities for improvement: simple, better, faster.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Investment Banking Program, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Microsoft Office proficiency
• Numerical, written and verbal skills
• Credit analysis
• Liquidity analysis
• Loan underwriting and structuring
• Real estate specific valuation and financial modelling
• Data presentation and visualization
• Interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Able to coordinate multiple workstreams and deliver against tight timelines
• Resilience and motivation
• Leadership and mentoring
• Sales, pitching and business acumen
• Networking

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of commercial real estate market inclusive of associated risks

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

In this role, you will:

• Be a subject matter expert (SME) of the relevant regulations applicable to the business lines under your coverage, namely the Credit, and Structured Products Group (SPG) businesses.
• Provide and oversee the proactive provision of accurate technical regulatory compliance advice, to the business lines within their coverage.
• Proactively challenge business lines to ensure compliance risk is identified and appropriately managed.
• Proactively support the business in the identification and management of Compliance issues and risks.
• Represent Compliance at relevant governance committees and other forums as necessary by providing challenge and technical regulatory compliance advice.
• Be involved in and oversee the team’s involvement in business led projects, including new business initiatives.
• Engage regularly with the legal department and other second line risk functions on current and emerging compliance risks and interact routinely with Internal Audit on regulatory compliance matters.
• Engage effectively with Global and International Compliance teams, providing SME advisory input including:

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Compliance, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Strong educational background with a university degree.
• Experience in the compliance and regulatory field within financial services and extensive knowledge of Global Markets at a leading global financial services firm(s), specifically with advisory experience covering the Credit businesses.
• Strong understanding of the market and regulatory environment in which Wells Fargo operates.
• Seasoned Compliance professional with matured leadership capabilities.
• Strong intellectual capability and flexibility, able to consider issues from multiple angles and lead debates and discussions with multiple stakeholders.
• Able to exercise independent thought, and influence/challenge senior stakeholders, including an ability to confront conflict and difficult issues in a professional, assertive and proactive manger while remaining sensitive to business needs.
• Good sense of judgement and absolute commitment to Wells Fargo transformation journey.
• Ability to lead projects with a focus on pace of execution and stakeholder collaboration.
• Ability to forge relationships across multiple functions to enhance the Compliance brand.
• Ability to deal with change and exhibit a service led mindset to support our stakeholders.
• Ability to challenge independently and constructively.
• Communicate effectively and confidently, orally and in writing at all levels of the organization.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong educational background ideally with a university degree and academic track record.
• Professional qualifications, certificates, and/or registrations relevant to Compliance/financial services.
• Corporate and Investment Banking experience, either in Compliance, Legal, Risk or the Business.

Job Expectations:

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Compliance Strategy and Wells Fargo Policies, and Procedures.
• Embed a performance culture aligned to the Wells Fargo Values.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

About this role:

In this role, you will:​

• Provide operational support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for market data platforms, including: (LSEG TREP) – Wells Fargo’s core market data distribution platform, Bloomberg – Supporting Bloomberg infrastructure, desktop applications, and data feeds, and ACTIV Financial – OptionsIT – Supporting ACTIV Financial’ s real-time data services.
• Monitor and optimise market data infrastructure to ensure low-latency, high-availability performance.
• Partner with business stakeholders, trading desks, and vendor support teams to resolve data and connectivity issues.
• Execute market data infrastructure upgrades, patches, and migrations outside US business hours.
• Implement and manage failover testing, hardware/software refreshes, and configuration changes.
• Work closely with global engineering teams on TREP architecture improvements and cloud migration initiatives.
• Perform scheduled BCP/DR tests, ensuring system reliability and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Support failover events and contingency planning for market data platform resiliency.
• Automation & Performance Optimisation
• Develop scripts and tools using Python, Bash, or Ansible to automate deployments, monitoring, and failover processes.
• Provide incident management and escalation for US business units.
• Ensure follow-the-sun support by working closely with US-based teams to handoff and resolve ongoing issues.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation on system configurations, troubleshooting guides, and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Experience in market data infrastructure, engineering, or support within a financial institution.
• Strong expertise in LSEG TREP (Refinitiv RMDS, MDDP) – installation, administration, and tuning.
• Experience with Bloomberg (server, desktop, data feeds) and ACTIV Financial (OptionsIT) platforms.
• Familiarity with market data entitlements, permissioning, and feed distribution.
• Technical & Infrastructure Expertise
• Linux/Unix Administration (Red Hat preferred) – experience managing market data servers.
• Networking knowledge – multicast, TCP/IP, firewalls, and network troubleshooting.
• Scripting & Automation – hands-on experience with Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Experience with infrastructure upgrades, software deployments, and configuration changes.
• BCP/Disaster Recovery & Risk Management
• Experience participating in failover events, BCP drills, and disaster recovery planning.
• Strong understanding of risk management principles in a financial services environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud Market Data Solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of middleware technologies for market data processing.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

About this role:

In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of solving some of the most complex engineering challenges in capital markets—optimizing for speed, throughput, and reliability in real-time market environments. You’ll own the architecture and development of high-performance systems.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives on selected domains
• Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk
• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost
• Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies
• Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature
• Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Mentor less experienced software engineers
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Specialty Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Development experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience of building large scale Java applications is needed.
• In-depth knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Solid background in Linux commands, Linux system calls, Linux operating system features, and low latency system tuning is desired.
• Solid knowledge in threading, thread to thread communication, process management, data structure and thread synchronization, shared memory constructs, and finite state machine design and implementation.
• Working knowledge on networking protocols (TCP/IP, multicast) is a must.
• Knowledgeable in one or more leading vendor or open-source messaging platform.
• Ability to produce technology platforms of high capacity, high volume, high throughput and low latency.

Desired Qualifications:

• C++ development experience.
• Experience in building market data distribution systems.
• Working knowledge in building high capacity, high volume, low latency technology for Electronic Trading modules such as ALGO, Smart Order Router, and/or Order Management Systems.
• Server and desktop hardware knowledge.
• Infrastructure (Server, Network Cards, Storage and Networking) knowledge and infrastructure tuning.
• Experience in the Capital Markets business and processes.
• Product and development knowledge in one or more Electronic Trading asset classes in Equities, Fixed Income, and FX.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

About this role:

The candidate will be required to ensure that projects comply with all company policies regarding the software delivery application lifecycle. The candidate should have experience working in an agile environment and have excellent business analysis, communication, and organisational skills. The role will require strategic design and mapping of business requirements and solutions to system/technical requirements.

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for the overall delivery of assigned technical projects which include direct contributions to the overall project plan, financials and risk management by working with stakeholders and technology teams to ensure milestones, forecasts and risks are accurately managed.
• Recommend best practices, industry standards and strategically aligned solutions based on business needs/requirements.
• Support in the definition of Business Requirements and translation of these into more detailed technical requirements for use by the technology teams where required.
• Include teams across Wells Fargo as required to resolve project issues, working effectively and individually with Technical and Non-Technical team members and stakeholders.
• Be able to effectively facilitate meetings, demonstratebrainstorming/consensusbuilding skills, and interact with executive level project sponsors.
• Assist with the definition of the post-implementation support and operating model and ensure a smooth transition into BAU for each product as it is deployed.
• Chair the monthly governance routine for the portfolios, including management reporting and stakeholder communication.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Business Systems Data and Business Systems Designing, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Full scale project lifecycle management experience in complex or multiple technology development efforts in large scale organisations (financial sector).
• Significant Capital Markets Product (OTC Derivative, Listed Derivative, Repos, Fixed Income, Equity Cash and eTrading products) experience.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with industry-leading solutions for transaction reporting for regulations such as EMIR, MIFID and SFTR.
• Notable experience in working closely with front office, Markets Operations and Middle office teams and Compliance/Risk functions.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with banking regulatory requirements and related project delivery.
• Demonstrable experience in technology delivery and relationship management within financial sector. Ability to collaborate with business and technology teams to understand requirements and translate to technical specifications.

Desired Qualifications:

• Established and proven track record in information technology requirements gathering, systems design and execution in supporting the Banking domain.
• Strong data analysis skills and experience, able to use tools such as Excel to analyze large volumes of data to find correlations, variations and anomalies.
• Broad exposure to banking, risk systems and technology optimisation experience.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with regulatory requirements across a broad spectrum of banking businesses.
• Notable experience in liaising directly with a variety of stakeholders throughout the firm.
• Ability to collaborate with business and technology teams to understand requirements and share with technical teams.
• Ability to be proactive and clearly escalate when risks or issues arise
• Good documentation skills with the ability to articulate complex topics in a concise and articulate manner.
• Experience of planning and coordinating technology delivery working closely with development teams.
• Ability to work across multiple initiatives in parallel and prioritise own workload.
• Experience of implementing a cloud-hosted solution and new innovative technologies.
• Experience of working with third-party vendors.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.