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Corporate Treasury manages the firm’s financial resources and minimizes interest expense through liability planning, asset liability management, and liquidity portfolio yield enhancement. The division is ideal for individuals with strong analytical skills who want to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment that requires collaboration across many functions at the firm. Within Corporate Treasury, the Funding and Execution Trading Desk focuses on efficient management of liabilities supporting the firm’s assets, including issuance of secured and unsecured liabilities and execution of interest rate, currency and other hedging strategies. This desk also manages the firm’s excess liquidity portfolio, ensuring efficient alignment of cash and collateral balances and implementing yield enhancement strategies in the portfolio.

The Treasury trading product suite includes structured repos, collateral upgrades, swaps, loans, bond borrows and notes, as well as other more complex products, designed to optimize firm funding across a range of constraints and objectives. The CT Middle Office team partners with trading, structuring and control functions across the firm to coordinate front-to-back lifecycle management for the diverse mix of transactions executed by the Funding and Execution Trading Desk. Key responsibilities of the team include liaising with clients to verify trades and coordinate settlements, helping in managing front to back lifecycle management of both unsecured and secured funding, ensuring accurate position capture of trading risk, and partnering with Engineering to uplift technology infrastructure and support new product development. CT Middle Office is looking for collaborative, analytical, highly motivated professionals to join our team, responsible for covering a wide range of Treasury product suite and risk functions. 

RESPONSIBILIITES:

Must be willing to gain a comprehensive understanding of the trade lifecycle by interacting with desk, sales, strategists in addition to legal, product control, credit, and structuring teams to work toward the shared goal of risk mitigationAct as first line of defense for trading desk through timely performance of exotic trade reviews and post-trade controls and identification and escalation of discrepancies, thereby minimizing financial, reputational and regulatory risk to the firm and its clientsManage trade lifecycle events on Treasury products including asset servicing and payment processing functions within settlement deadlinesAct as first point of contact for Treasury Trading and to field client queriesPartner with cross federation teams to ensure accurate and timely settlement of transactionsCollaborate with the Structuring and Trading Desk to evaluate and execute new business initiativesIdentify, lead and contribute to projects that promote continuous process enhancement, deliver process efficiencies and reduce operational riskCoaching, training and development of team members

COMPETENCIES:

5 – 7 years Operations experience, preferably in a Middle Office or other role related to securities or derivatives trade lifecycle and settlement Ability to perform well under pressure in a deadline driven environment. Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities and field Ad-hoc requestsStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and creative thinking are essential for the roleEffective communication skills and technical expertise to be able to break down and articulate complex issues clearly and concisely to a variety of different audiencesStrong risk management skills and experience of functional and operational risk reviews and implementation of new controls Ability to self-motivate and perform as a proactive team player who takes ownership and accountability of projects and assigned tasks. Aptitude for networking and building collaborative relationships across teams and divisions

 

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