Portfolio Finance

Mission Staffing; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Staffing is seeking an experienced Financing Analyst to manage margin and funding cost analysis across prime brokerage and related instruments. You will own methodologies, execute repo transactions, support securities lending, and hedge FX exposures to optimize costs.

The role requires strong independent thinking, a control mindset, and collaboration with Treasury, Investment, and Middle Office teams to improve processes and reporting capabilities. This is a NY-based opportunity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in prime brokerage funding or related treasury/risk role.
• Experience with financing methods for equities and credit.
• Strong understanding of leverage, margin, and financing concepts.
• Preference for FX hedging experience and margin methodology negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily margin and financing costs across prime brokerage, repo, swaps, and margin loans.
• Own and maintain financing cost allocation across strategies and asset classes.
• Execute repo transactions for fixed income and credit products.
• Facilitate securities borrowing and minimize costs for short positions.
• Monitor FX exposures and hedge appropriately.
• Collaborate with investment, treasury, and middle office teams to inform financing impact.
• Support liquidity management and cash reinvestment.
• Interact with prime brokers, repo desks, stock loan desks, and other counterparties.
• Drive process improvements in analytics and reporting.

Skills

Margin analysis

Financing costs

Prime brokerage

Repo transactions

FX hedging

Leverage concepts

Job description

• Monitor and analyze daily margin and financing costs across prime brokerage, repo, total return swaps, and margin loans.
• Own and maintain the financing cost allocation methodology across strategies and asset classes, including efficiency metrics.
• Execute repo transactions for various fixed income and credit products.
• Facilitate borrowing of securities and minimize cost for short positions.
• Monitor firm-level FX exposures and hedge appropriately.
• Partner with internal teams regularly:
• Investment professionals, to provide insight into financing impact for current and future investment strategies.
• Treasury, for liquidity management and excess cash reinvestment.
• Middle office teams, for trade support and cash wires.
• Manage day-to-day interactions with prime brokers, repo desks, stock loan desks, and other financing counterparties.
• Consistently seek to improve processes and analytics/reporting capabilities.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of direct experience in a comparable role, e.g., prime brokerage funding or risk management at a bank, or portfolio finance/treasury at a hedge fund.
• Experience with various financing methods for equities and credit, and a deep understanding of leverage, margin, and financing concepts.
• Strong preference for experience in FX hedging and/or negotiating margin methodologies.
• Independent thinker with a firm-wide, control-oriented mindset.