At a Glance
- Tasks: Build strong relationships and manage securities for clients in a fast-paced trading environment.
- Company: Join State Street, a leader in financial services with a commitment to diversity and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth opportunities, and a dynamic work culture.
- Other info: Flexible, creative environment that encourages challenging the status quo.
- Why this job: Make an impact in finance while collaborating with top professionals and cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 2+ years in Securities Finance, strong analytical skills, and programming experience (Python preferred).
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain strong and diverse borrower relationships to ensure State Street is their primary partner.
- Borrow and lend securities to cover and manage clients’ short positions.
- Provide daily color on hard-to-borrow securities and special situations to portfolio managers, analysts, execution traders, and treasury personnel.
- Optimize financial resources and manage risk to drive returns.
- Collaborate with partner teams in Sales, Client Management, and Product Development to deliver an exceptional product experience for our clients.
- Support the trading desk in strategic initiatives, including liquidity management, capital optimization, and business growth planning.
- Contribute to product development efforts, including testing new features, gathering client feedback, and refining the Prime trading product offering.
- Required Skills and Qualifications
- Superior problem‑solving, analytical, and technical skills.
- Experience working in a fast‑paced, front‑office financial markets environment.
- Strong skills in modeling and programming – experience programming in procedural/object‑oriented and/or scripting languages (Python preferred).
- Ability to build dashboards using large datasets to identify themes and present talking points to clients and counterparts.
- Outstanding written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to interact professionally with business leaders and technical teams alike.
- Extremely flexible with a “do anything” mentality; creative and willing to challenge current paradigms.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum of 2+ years’ experience in Securities Finance trading.
- Self‑starter, motivated by making the entire team successful.
- Proficiency in Bloomberg and Microsoft Office, specifically Excel.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or analytical discipline such as Computer Science, IT, Financial Engineering, Engineering, Science, Economics, Mathematics, or Statistics.
State Street is an equal‑opportunity and affirmative action employer.
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We think you need these skills to ace Prime Services Trading EMEA, Assitant Vice President, Onsite
Relationship Management
Securities Lending
Risk Management
Financial Modelling
Programming (Python preferred)
Dashboard Creation
Data Analysis
