Vice President - Global Markets Documentation – Regulatory Team jobs at Td Bank in United Kingdom, London

Job Description:

London - UK

Job Title: Senior Java Engineer

Corporate Title: Director

The Equities Cash Technology team is a global team with a good presence in every region (AMRS, EMEA and APAC). We aim to maintain a global perspective while recognizing and responding to specific regional requirements that make each market unique.

Role Description:

This job is responsible for functionally leading a team. The team is working on number of algorithmic engines that support benchmark algos, smart order routing and internal crossing, serving the EMEA as well as global electronic business. Apart from a continuous stream of strategy container enhancements and regulatory requirements, the team is also working on number of framework related items. The underlying platform has been built on a Java framework with next generation low latency and high throughput at the heart of the application. There is a high degree of business and quants interaction.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

Delivery of key functional changes to the ETT strategy engines

• Delivery of core framework-level changes
• Interaction with quantitative trading group / quantitative traders to capture core requirements.
• Being involved with all aspects of the development lifecycle (gathering requirements, developing code, writing unit tests, reviewing patches, performing 2nd level support

The following skills are required:

• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in developing modern systems using modern software development practices and an automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing.
• In depth understanding of core Java API’s (collections, concurrency, NIO )
• Understand and have experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency I/O.
• Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture (algo trading plant and topology)
• Business Knowledge – Understanding of equities and/or derivatives markets.
• Understanding of benchmark algo and/or smart routing strategies (VWAP, TWAP, Arrival Price etc.)
• Understanding of and experience with design patterns (Observer, Factory, Singleton )
• Development practices - Should be able to use test focused development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse or IntelliJ, GIT, continuous build servers and Maven / Gradle.
• Should be able to work with and help more junior members
• Can demonstrate ability to work in a multi-faceted role (development with some testing, support, and analysis).

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Business Knowledge – Understanding of Futures, FX and/or FI.
• Experience working with agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of FIX (heart beating, login, sequence numbers, message types etc.)

Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

Job Description:

London - UK

Job Title: Senior Technology Manager

Corporate Title: Director

The Equities Cash Technology team is a global team with a good presence in every region (AMRS, EMEA and APAC). We aim to maintain a global perspective while recognizing and responding to specific regional requirements that make each market unique.

Role Description:

This job is responsible for functionally leading a team. The team is working on number of algorithmic engines that support benchmark algos, smart order routing and internal crossing, serving the EMEA as well as global electronic business. Apart from a continuous stream of strategy container enhancements and regulatory requirements, the team is also working on number of framework related items. The underlying platform has been built on a Java framework with next generation low latency and high throughput at the heart of the application. There is a high degree of business and quants interaction.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

Delivery of key functional changes to the ETT strategy engines

• Delivery of core framework-level changes
• Interaction with quantitative trading group / quantitative traders to capture core requirements.
• Being involved with all aspects of the development lifecycle (gathering requirements, developing code, writing unit tests, reviewing patches, performing 2nd level support

The following skills are required:

• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in developing modern systems using modern software development practices and an automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing.
• In depth understanding of core Java API’s (collections, concurrency, NIO )
• Understand and have experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency I/O.
• Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture (algo trading plant and topology)
• Business Knowledge – Understanding of equities and/or derivatives markets.
• Understanding of benchmark algo and/or smart routing strategies (VWAP, TWAP, Arrival Price etc.)
• Understanding of and experience with design patterns (Observer, Factory, Singleton )
• Development practices - Should be able to use test focused development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse or IntelliJ, GIT, continuous build servers and Maven / Gradle.
• Should be able to work with and help more junior members
• Can demonstrate ability to work in a multi-faceted role (development with some testing, support, and analysis).

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Business Knowledge – Understanding of Futures, FX and/or FI.
• Experience working with agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of FIX (heart beating, login, sequence numbers, message types etc.)

Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

Responsibilities:

• You will be assisting the Cross Assets Strats team as part of the Strategic Risk and PnL project to re-factor and redesign our market model code.

• This project seeks to explain the risk and PnL of the Global Markets business in a strategic fashion

• Working as part of a team of 8 people, you will be writing and debugging code in Python, running within Quartz, the in-house bank platform.

• On-going learning about and debugging existing market model code used for calculating risk and PnL, simplifying and optimizing it to perform more efficiently.

• Programming ability is most highly prized. Financial knowledge is desirable but not strictly necessary, provided there is a willingness to learn.

What we are looking for:

• You are passionate about programming and are comfortable with a variety of programming languages and paradigms

• You have previously written a scripting language, or at least know how you might go about it

• You appreciate functional programming concepts and writing algorithms in a functional style

• You have good mathematical abilities and want to learn more about using mathematical techniques to analyse data

• You have financial and quantitative knowledge, and would like to learn more

Key Requirements

• Proficient in Python, C++, Java, Lisp or other

• Excellent analytical skills

• Good communication skills

• Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Finance or related field

UK

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.

• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.

• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.

Job Description:

Job Title:Global Markets Risk Executive

Managing Director

Role Overview:

Responsibilities:

• Implements the new/complex product approval process and limits approval authority and reporting of market risk.

• Oversees identification of market risk exposures and mitigation strategies and resolution in accordance with the bank's risk appetite and limits identified, as well as regulatory requirements, as applicable.

• Oversees risk requests, breach remediations, and provides risk effective challenges for the Front-Line units.

• Provides insight into the development of market risk coverage plans, execution of monitoring, testing and risk assessments, and market risk reporting for the specific products.

• Understands market trends and their impact on portfolio, using knowledge of stress testing and its applicability to market risk.

• Ensures adherence to the policies and procedures established by the Firm.

What we are looking for:

• Previous experience as a Senior Market Risk Manager/Lead working directly with the Front Line and performing risk analysis is desirable.

• Ability to build strong relationships with the Front Line while maintaining independence, including handling disputes, negotiating with traders, and ability to uphold risk frameworks.

• Good understanding of macroeconomic and political developments and their impact on financial markets, and interdependencies between asset classes, especially how these change during a market crisis.

• Ability to multitask in a dynamic environment.

• Strong communication skills including impeccable writing skills for external documentation.

• Solid academic background, which may include a postgraduate qualification.

• Excellent analytical skills and knowledge of FICC products, markets, and risk management.

UK

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.

• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.

Job Description:

Hedge Fund Credit role within Global Markets Credit (GMC) responsible for managing the counterparty risk on a portfolio of EMEA-based hedge funds.

Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of EMEA based hedge fund clients from on-boarding through to underwriting/credit approval and ongoing risk management.
• Detailed written analysis of hedge fund clients demonstrating a good understanding of investment strategies, liquidity, leverage and volatility.
• Perform qualitative and quantitative credit assessment of clients and their trading exposure including stress and sensitivity analysis.
• Lead credit due diligence calls with hedge fund clients and prepare written due diligence assessments for risk management review.
• Propose risk-based limits based on assigned internal counterparty rating.
• Approval of daily trade flow including the calculation and application of Initial Margin
• Liaise with Legal to initiate documentation for trading activity including the specification of credit terms as required.
• Timely identification and escalation of limit overages, margin disputes and missed calls, monthly NAV trigger breaches, escalation threshold breaches and ad-hoc report management, escalating anycounterparties/issuesof concern as necessary.
• Assist junior colleagues to ensure timely attention of limit breaches and escalations.
• Assist junior team members in continued self-development including enhanced product knowledge and understanding of more complex clients/trades.
• Prepare monthly management information in respect of European hedge fund exposures for senior risk committees and be able to speak to the data.
• Promote strong engagement with Sales & Trading executives, Agreements & Documentation (A&D) partners, Collateral Management & Operations, Prime Brokerage Risk, Enterprise and Market Risk Management.
• Assist in ad-hoc project work and regulatory deliverables as required.

Requirements

• Prior experience in a hedge fund counterparty credit risk role.
• Strong knowledge of hedge funds, their strategies and associated risks.
• A good understanding of Global Markets and derivativeproducts/documentation.
• Ability to manage significant deal flow often to tight deadlines in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Confident self-starter with strong communication skills and an ability to negotiate effectively.
• Problem solver, ability to manage issues in a timely manner.
• Good quantitative and Excel based skills required.
• Bloomberg experience advantageous.
• Candidate should be a strong team player, willing to support more junior members of the team and the team lead, as required.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.

Job Title:Credit Risk Officer

Job Description

GCIB Credit is responsible for analysing and delivering credit underwriting debt financing solutions and derivative strategies for medium and large corporate clients of GCIB & Global Markets (GM). GCIB includes corporate banking and investment banking and GM includes sales & trading. The group provides services to middle-market and large corporations, government entities and institutional investors. Services including mergers and acquisition advice, equity and debt capital raising, corporate lending, sales and trading in fixed income, commodities, currency and equities, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial and credit analysis, risk rating analysis ensuring adherence to prevailing credit policy and procedures for an assigned portfolio.
• Independently assess credit worthiness, perform intensive qualitative and quantitative due diligence of prospective borrowers and/or trading counterparties and establish appropriate terms and conditions to mitigate risk
• Structuring transactions, underwriting and negotiating credit documentation designed to meet both client and investor needs including credit agreements, amendments, derivative documentation.
• Ensuring granularity of the portfolio with specific reference to targets for net country/credit capital, legally binding commitments, total exposure and asset quality.
• Establish appropriate internal risk ratings for clients and implement accurate adjustments throughout the client’s credit life cycle.
• Ensuring that the portfolio and credit management process are at all times rated "satisfactory" by internal auditors, the Credit Review group and external Regulators.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product spectrum and portfolio at the client, industry, and macro level to assess risk and craft value added solutions balancing risk.
• Develop, maintain, and manage internal relationships with business partners including Corporate and Investment Bankers, Sales & Trading, Risk Management, Syndications, and Legal.
• Participate in strategic projects to support business goals.
• Providing provide appropriate coaching and development to junior teammates.

What we are looking for

• Credit risk experience at a major international financial institution, analysing, assessing companies and knowledge of EMEA and specific industry sectors, structuring transactions and documentation.
• Knowledge of analysing and assessing mid-market corporates, including understanding market practices on structuring and documentation for such mid-market corporates, across different industry sectors
• Effective credit skills, risk judgment and broader risk awareness and understanding of the wider business, market and regulatory environment in which the bank operates, and how that impacts client and portfolio’s credit profile and ability to defend rigorously a fact-based point of view.
• BA/BSc degree (or equivalent); Finance, Accounting or Economics would be beneficial.
• Sound product/technical, documentation and process knowledge across lending, trade finance and derivative (FX, rates, commodities and equities) products.
• Acting as an agent of change/improvement, influencing corporate policy/procedure and projecting a positive strategic vision.
• Commercial mindset to support value added discussions with effective interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills, and attention to detail and accuracy.
• Fluency with use of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel; including ability to prepare and/or review company specific financial models in Excel.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise and work under pressure, drive deal selection, negotiate solutions, strong transaction management process, and proactively manage credit risks.
• Fluency in English required. Additionally, another European language skills will be considered highly beneficial.

UK

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.

You will play an influential role in partnership with engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional VPs of Engineering, owning technical vision and direction as well as Developer Experience.

In order to excel in this role you will possess:

• Great communication skills.
• Ability to influence across teams and with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to drive vision and strategy for our overall architecture to support scale, performance, resiliency and reliability of our platform.
• Have created a reference architecture for a group of engineers to learn from, not just diagrams but code.
• Come from a technical background, extremely proficient in microservices architectures, architecture patterns, having created architectures that allow services to be shipped to production multiple times a day as independently releasable microservices.
• Be a keen coder and have the ability to roll up your sleeves and ship high quality production code for critical services.
• Be able to quickly identify problems with our current state solutions and come to solutions quickly to enable critical delivery to move.
• An evangelist who can always keep an eye on the future, and in doing so help keep our teams up to speed on the latest and greatest happenings within technology.
• Strong appreciation of Event Storming and DDD having applied these mythologies in shaping microservices architectures.
• Experience in creating / engineering Cloud Native Architectures.

Additional Experience (nice to have).

• Some experience with Model Context Protocol / AI having had some experience in how this can shape the future of software engineering.
• Experience in Java within low latency environments.
• Experience of chaos engineering and patterns that ensure high uptime and resiliency.

Education:

• Degree in Computer Science or Similar Technical Discipline.
• 10+ years experience having come from a software engineering background.

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