Position Overview:
Primary focus will be Cash and Collateral Management across all global portfolios with an emphasis on safeguarding of assets and obtaining capital efficiencies.
**Candidate should be comfortable in a time sensitive environment and deliver high quality results by collaborating with colleagues and global financial institutions in multiple time zones. **
- Monitoring of margin and collateral requirements and ensuring Squarepoints margin is competitive and accurately applied.
- Reconcile currency and collateral balances held at brokers and financial institutions. Ensure accounts are properly credited and debited as originally instructed.
- Optimize cash balances for liquidity yield enhancement and collapsing boxed currencies across financial counterparties.
- Continuously build upon and improve scalable processes that enable efficient portfolio finance activities.
- Monitor counterparty exposure and execute remedial action to mitigate risk by reducing excess collateral posting into tri-party structures (UMR) and swapping cash/collateral.
- Partner with internal trading desks and investment teams on portfolio financing and collateral requirements.
- Review margin replication and internal metrics daily for consistency and accuracy.
Required Qualifications:
- 0-2 years prime broker margin experience covering multiple hedge strategies. Preferred experience can be either a prime broker or a global hedge fund.
- Proficiency in global asset types and instruments: futures foreign exchange equities equity swaps contracts for differences investment grade and high yield corporate bonds sovereign debt mortgage backs repo options credit default swaps interest rate swaps.
- Working knowledge of global currency and collateral transfers across industry applications and utilities FED SWIFT DTC FICC.
- Proficiency in margin calculations including hedged and cross product margin optimization.
- Knowledge of UMR and tri-party structures.
- Understand the importance of our team concept. Establish long-lasting organizational relationships that will foster a productive work environment.
- Demonstrate proficiency in written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to build upon and improve scalable processes that enable efficient portfolio finance activities and new business initiatives.
- Programming skills and writing macros are a plus.
Required Experience:
IC