Vice President – Prime Brokerage Financing Risk

Role & responsibilities:

– Lead the day-to-day activities Prime Risk & Controls functions supporting Asia, Europe and US.

– Spearhead the development of a comprehensive automated risk controls framework and eventually own the end-to-end risk management process for the business.

– Own and build a strategic Prime Risk and Analytics platform, collaborate with IT to provide requirements, drive approach and implementation.

– Set up framework for timely escalation for the controls suite to senior management; collaborate with Collateral, Legal, IT and other support teams to get issues resolved.

– Ensure that team runs daily checks on client setups, build reconciliations using data from reference data, trade booking and margin & collateral systems.

– Build, monitor and run daily control reports and dashboard to check day-over-day swings on key metrics.

– Write daily commentary on control breaks, exceptions and swings. Write client level commentaries, adhoc analysis and run what-if scenarios providing indicative margin levels.

– Run team calls and represent or explain control breaks and resolution.

– Mentor and manage the team.

Preferred candidate profile:

– Qualification gained in Maths, Financial Maths, Engineering, Operational Research, Statistics, Computer Science or similar.

– Minimum 12 years of experience in Risk Management.

– Strong knowledge of Equities, Equity Derivatives, Convertible Bonds, Fixed Income, Repo, and Futures and Options.

– Strong technical knowledge and understanding of risk management concepts such as VaR, stress testing, and scenario analysis.

– MS Excel to expert level.

– Programming Skills e.g. VBA, SQL, Python, Power BI etc. (intermediate level).

– Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

– Previous experience in Global Markets (Prime Brokerage, Equity Financing, Treasury or Risk management).

– Further Financial Education e.g. FRM, CFA (Level 2), CAIA, etc.

– Knowledge of Prime Brokerage and/or financing businesses, and client motivation.