Job Responsibilities
- Support the EMEA Collateral Risk team in managing all aspects of collateral risk from regulatory margin, in-house margin, collateral pool assessments (liquidity, concentration, wrong-way risk, etc.), collateral/margin disputes.
- Monitor exposures, identify concentrated or concerning risk positions, and escalate appropriately. Identify notable trends and material changes in the collateral pool
- Understand margining methodologies, conduct benchmarking analysis, and engage senior traders to understand trade and market dynamics.
- Monitor markets and geopolitical developments and assess impact to the collateral pool
- Support Sales and Trading on the negotiation of CSAs, mitigating collateral risk by identifying and managing collateral eligibility criteria and non-standard collateral.
- Provide on-going support to Credit Officers on counterparty credit exposure for new deals with complex structures correlatedness, including the explain and challenge of calculations by 1st line of defense.
- Contribute to firm-wide projects around key counterparty credit exposure metrics & technical enhancements
- Manage responses to bespoke client requests on the firm’s initial margin methodologies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Undergraduate degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant work experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in a discipline such as Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Engineering, Finance and/or Economics
- Knowledge of risk management including scenario analysis and stress testing. Knowledge of NCMR, SIMM, VaR or other margin methodologies.
- Good understanding of quantitative concepts relating to credit exposure, risk sensitivity and stress testing
- Demonstrated interest in and knowledge of global financial markets and strong intuition in its impact to our business
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; inquisitive nature and comfortable in challenging current practices
- Strong communication skill and interpersonal skills to be leveraged in executive governance and senior management forums
- Must be able to work under pressure and deliver on multiple tight, time sensitive timelines
- Innovative and creative thinking. Ability to improve current processes and achieve efficiencies
- Prior experience with coding and data visualization tools such as Python, Alteryx, SQL & Tableau
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in Credit, Trading or Trading middle office functions. Master’s degree, CFA, CQF or FRM designations are preferred.
- Sufficient product knowledge and quantitative skills with broad range of asset classes and investment strategies, a plus