Prime Brokerage Middle Office: Equity & Fixed Income (Repo’s) Stock Lending & Collateral Management Operations SME (Based on a Trading floor and a brand new Trading desk)

Martis Search are proud to represent a City of London based global Investment Bank that is going through a huge and continued growth phase to hire a senior Equity & Fixed Income Stock Lending & Collateral Management Operations SME situated within their Prime Brokerage Middle Office.

This is a brand new business line, Trading desk and Middle Office department supporting a highly experienced Equity & Fixed Income (Repo’s) Stock Lending & Collateral Management Trading desk.

Our client is looking for an Equity & Fixed Income Stock Lending Operations/ Security Lending Operations/ Collateral Management SME with sound working knowledge gained from Equities and Fixed Income (Repo’s) Securities Lending Operations. You will be required to be heavily involved with BAU, but also setting up complex processes with the Head of Operations, including researching and continually implementing new technology initiatives, systems, AI & “Robotic Process Automation” to create automated, robust and scalable Operations (Front-to-Back) Middle Office processes going forward.

Products covered:

• Stock Lending (Mandatory Operations experience)
• Repo’s (Mandatory Operations experience)
• Equity Derivatives/ Equity Swaps (Highly Desirable Operations experience)

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include providing expert knowledge on securities lending, managing margining collateral processes, handling Billings and Settlements, overseeing Corporate Actions and Static Data.

Our client is looking for someone who has a strong understanding of the Stock Lending Operation trade life cycle, including Collateral Management, Triparty, Corporate Actions, Cash Management and Billings procedures. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with senior management on strategic projects.

This role offers a unique blend of responsibilities that will allow you to leverage your skills while contributing to the success of a leading financial services platform. Please note though, that this role is 5-days per week in the office, with no option to work-from-home, but does offer very reasonable working hours.

The role is based on their Trading floor and supports their London based, but also global Prime Brokerage Trading teams. The division is a massively expanding global business and our client trades with and supports global Hedge Funds.

The management are willing and open to sharing their extensive knowledge and are willing to pass this onto the chosen incumbent. The position requires someone with a minimum of 3-years Stock Lending Operations/ Security Lending Operations experience, who is:

• Genuinely willing to learn all parts of the job.
• Able to multi-task.
• Give their own ideas (once you have a good grasp of the BAU day-to-day Middle Office tasks).
• Keen to learn the industry.
• Career driven.
• Looking for a very fast-paced, challenging, but rewarding work environment.

Our client will offer you:

• A genuine career path.
• A structured “on-the-job” training plan.
• Extensive learning curve and exposure to global markets, multi-asset classes such as global Cash Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives.
• Working with some of the best Traders in London and top-tier global Hedge Funds.

Salary: Between £60 k pa - £80 k pa dependent upon experience, plus discretionary annual bonus, pension, healthcare, life assurance and more.