Director Finance ofertas em Grã-Bretanha

Margin Trading is a front office risk management group within Prime Financial Services (PFS) tasked with enhancing the decision-making process that goes into the allocation of scarce financial resources with a view of optimising risk adjusted returns.

As a Vice President in our team you will play a pivotal role in driving the team and business strategy forward.

• Analyse and address clients’ risk exposures within their portfolio
• Enhance and develop the “Best in Class” risk management tools
• Participate in regular client meetings, client pitches, and internal risk meetings as the risk and pricing expert
• Work with the broader Risk organization to enhance stress testing capability, covering liquidation and concentration
• Assist in the negotiations of legal documentation and contribute to marketing efforts by taking part in client pitches
• Design and develop customised client financing arrangements
• Participate in client discussions around existing and new trades and speak regularly about margin and pricing, returns and profitability with some of the firms largest institutional clients
• Interact with internal groups, such as product development, to uncover product gaps and fix and enhance existing prime infrastructure
• Work with clients and internal stakeholders to develop risk management solutions that protect the firm
• Set appropriate limits and risk appetite for clients, considering a wide range of factors.

• You have a thorough understanding of financial markets and technical experience in the cash and synthetic prime brokerage business
• The combination of your analytical and quantitative skills makes you well-versed in risk management and financial analytics, i.e. pricing and risk analysis of complex linear and non-linear financial instruments
• You are able to analyse and monitor client trades and portfolios to quantify, manage and balance risk and profitability, as well as you understand various hedge fund strategies, the underlying products, sensitivities, risk and funding profiles, and set leverage and pricing levels
• You understand nuances in funding markets, balance sheet, risk weighted assets, and capital requirements affecting the prime brokerage and clearing business
• You conceptualise and design solutions to solve client problems; you have experience in working with product development teams to design new analytical tools and systems to generate efficiencies
• You bring advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python, VBA, SQL, Jupyter, to allow for manipulation of large data sets in order to analyse trends and risk reporting
• Your excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex financial concepts in a clear and concise fashion makes you an impactful partner to internal desks, management and senior personnel at hedge funds

• Experience negotiating legal agreements for different term financing structures with customers across cash and synthetic prime brokerage
• Extensive experience working with the firm’s credit and risk management teams, sales, stock loan, client service, product development, quantitative research and legal departments
• Knowledge of Bloomberg API

This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.