AVP - Collateral Management - OTC

AVP

- Managing a team of 50+ client service representatives who are responsible for bilateral OTC margining

- Key escalation point for Margin team and main point of contact for internal and external stakeholders

Monitor the firm's collateralisation requirements arising from the trading activities of those counterparties with margin documentation in place

- Negotiate collateral exchanges / substitutions with counterparties

- Preparation / Delivery of Strategic planning for the team

- Responsible for the on boarding of new products

- Responsible for ensuring team adheres to all internal policies, procedures and external regulatory requirements

- Responsible for managing all risk aspects including any internal & external audits.

- Responsible for all Industry Initiatives

- Staff development and appraisal process

Required Skills :

Essential Skills :

System Skills :

Nice to have :

- Experience of working in Financial Services, especially Investment Banking

- Knowledge of Middle Office and Back Office processing (trade capture, confirmation, settlements, lifecycle management, etc

- A self motivated, structured and logical thinker

- Partnership and communication skills (verbal and written)

- Presentation skills, able to summarise messages

- Proven track record of delivering projects to plan and ability to manage multiple priorities

- Strong assertiveness, listening, influencing and diplomacy skills (at all levels)

- Ability to run effective meetings, workshops and off-sites with different levels of management

- Analytical and strong problem-solving abilities

- Attention to detail, delivering high quality output

- Strong controls background with previous experience of implementing and maintaining key business controls

- Competent with MS Core Products: Word, Excel & PowerPoint

- Competent OR have working knowledge of industry applications: Margin Sphere, Arcadia Soft, Tri Optima, etc

- Familiarity with markets products ideally in more than one asset class

- Product Knowledge: Collateral Management, Client Valuations

- Knowledge of structured business analysis (e.g. 6 Sigma)

- A good understanding of financial markets documentation (ISDA, GMRA IFEMA, PSA)

- Systems skills in MS Project and Visio