Trading Repo Executive Director | London, UK (London)

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Securities Financing Trading

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Funding, Liquidity and Capital Optimisation Trader to join our global SFT team.

The candidate will enhance funding and balance sheet efficiency, in coordination with the rest of traders globally resulting in high revenue outcomes and improved capital returns for the business.

This role requires technical expertise in repo markets, strong analytical skills, and a strategic mindset to optimise capital and liquidity resources.

About the job:

Main responsibilities and duties of the role:

• Strategically manage funding, collateral and balance sheet usage working in partnership with asset class traders across regions.
• Leverage resource optimization to increase client balance sheet access and improve pricing.
• Optimise NSFR and LCR enhancement. Accurate modelling for LCR and NSFR stress scenarios.
• Analysis and optimise our CoI.
• Design and develop centralised trading desk information platform and predictive tools for daily funding & collateral needs factoring in triparty, netting, and shorts.
• Expand and optimise triparty repo capabilities with different custodians.
• Evaluate and integrate solutions for triparty and collateral optimisation.
• Design and manage an internal transfer pricing framework across financing desks for fair cost attribution.
• Design and manage a transfer pricing model between the SFT desk and cash desks.
• Implement forecasting models and metrics.
• Engage and manage the relationship with CCP, ICSDs and other platform providers.
• Engage with external Fintech and innovation hubs focused on SFT, capital efficiency and liquidity solution.
• Ability to analyse and work with finance to identify PnL issues.
• Support the growth of a leaner, more efficient, and more productive STF desk.
• Own the regulatory horizon scanning that will impact the SFT market

Profile and skillset:

• Proven experience in x-asset and x-currency repo trading, both flow and solutions experiences.
• Strong commercial mindset.
• Client facing, focused and sought out for thought leadership
• Experience is funding optimisation, or treasury-related functions.
• Deep understanding of liquidity regulations (LCR, NSFR) and capital efficiency strategies.
• Technical knowledge and experience managing capital; leverage and RWAs
• Strong technical skills in data analysis, automation, and platform integration.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with external counterparties and internal stakeholders across Treasury, Trading, and Sales.
• Strategic mindset with a focus on optimisation and profitability
• Strong technical proficiency in financial modelling and automation.
• Coding skills required (SQL,VBA, Python, etc...).
• Ability to manage complex regulatory metrics and optimise under constraints.
• Reliable, proactive, systematic candidate and particular attention to details.
• The candidate needs over 10 years' experience in securities financing, proven knowledge of financing optimization.

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