Vice President, Collateral Manager

About the role

Drive strategic planning and optimization initiatives, including platform and process enhancements, to improve trading efficiency and reduce operational risks. Create tailored financing solutions for clients, strategically allocate assets across regions, and optimize daily cash management to support trading strategies and enhance market positions.

Responsibilities

• Pricing Clients: Establish guidelines for collateral management in DEC, recommend conditions on fees and interest rates, and maintain/update acceptable collateral policy and haircut schedules. Work closely with Sales and Product Teams to create tailored collateral solutions for clients.
• Collateral Transformation: Collaborate with multiple teams to enhance collateral optimization, invest customer cash in authorized assets like Money Market Funds, Repo-Reverse Repo, and government Bonds, and manage FX positions with FX Swaps and Spot transactions. Drive investments decisions based on client needs and collateral flows, building tailored solutions.
• Collateral Optimization: Create tailored solutions for clients to meet their financing needs, including single currency margining, bond boxing, collateral accommodation, margin financing, and waivers. Strategically allocate assets across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC regions to minimize costs and maximize efficiency, leveraging both client assets and our own inventory.
• Funding Controls: Streamline funding processes worldwide, work closely with GMAT/ALMT to provide requested currency funding, and integrate collateral/margin reporting across systems to enhance collateral tracking and risk management.
• Platform Enhancements: Drive strategy and roadmap for margin, cash, and collateral products, simplify settlement bank and custodian setups to reduce costs, and develop custom collateral management solutions for DEC regions and entities to improve efficiency.
• PnL Supervision: Closely monitor interest, collateral, and funding PnL, conduct regular client profitability reviews, and oversee collateral PnL allocation and client reporting. Collaborate with Finance on PnL reconciliations, budgeting, and reporting to ensure accuracy and transparency.

Requirements

• Master's degree (US or Foreign Equivalent) in Engineering Finance or related field and seven (7) years of experience in the Investment Banking Industry.
• Seven (7) years of experience with: Platform and Process Enhancement, Strategic Planning and Optimization, Investment Decision-Making, Financial Analysis, and Risk Management.
• One (1) year of experience with: Collateral Management.