Join us as a Private Financing Transaction Support Director
- We’ll look to you to lead the financial and resource management of our Repo & Risk Transformation and Firm Financing business lines within our Private Financing franchise, focusing on both new and existing transactions
- You’ll be managing existing and forward-looking resources, as well as using your creative thinking skills in the design of new processes, optimisation of existing processes, and automation of MI
- This senior regulated role is a unique opportunity to be recognised for your unwavering integrity, sound judgment and commitment to doing the right thing
What you'll do
As a Private Financing Transaction Support Director, you’ll be working with Private Financing Trading to control the financial resources of the Repo & Risk Transformation and Firm Financing business lines, incorporating input from the Origination and Structuring teams to manage the pipeline.
You’ll be managing the consumption of resources, including unsecured funding, leverage, RWAs, and risk limits with an idea toward both building portfolio monitoring tools and highlighting opportunities for optimisation and savings, and initiating management actions to hedge capacity constraint
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Understanding the risk run by the desk and managing the measurement and reporting of assets and liabilities against resource budgets, on both a spot and behavioural basis
- Managing the P&L budget for the desk, with a specific focus on P&L measurement, attribution tools, internal charges and cost savings or optimisation
- Preparing presentations for internal and external stakeholders and building out the operating model to make sure the portfolio review process is ongoing, providing a clear feedback loop into client planning
The skills you'll need
This role would be suited to someone with extensive experience, ideally in finance, with a focus on structured transactions and fixed income products, including repo, securities lending, total return swaps, short-term interest rates, FX, credit default swaps, IRS, cross-currency basis swaps, bond borrows and structured notes.
On top of this, you’ll bring an excellent academic background, or equivalent, ideally in a highly quantitative subject such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Finance or Financial Economics or Computing.
You’ll also need:
- Quantitative, analytical and modelling skills, with advanced knowledge of Excel or VBA, and Python or programming proficiency
- Proficiency in bank liquidity and capital metrics, asset and liability management, bank capital and RWA utilisation
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to multi-task and to work well under pressure