Margin Analyst recruitment
UBS can offer you an environment geared towards performance, attractive career opportunities, and an open corporate culture that values and rewards the contribution of every individual.
Description:
The successful candidate within the Prime Services Margin team focusing on UBS PB, SBL and ETD collateralised trading and margin.
The Prime Services margin team, which is part of the broader Global Collateral Margin Management team (GCMM) provides a global service to UBS’s Hedge Fund client base with teams present in Hong Kong, Singapore, New York and London.
The individual will take a proactive role in working with credit, client service, sales, IT and risk management to ensure that the firm's margin risk exposure is evaluated and monitored consistently with the Firm's internal risk guidelines. The individual will contribute significantly in analysing and determining appropriate collateral/margin requirements for cash and derivative fixed income and equity transactions.
Duties Responsibilities
- Daily assessment of Hedge Fund margin levels risk with UBS based on quantitative assessment of the client’s portfolio which takes in to account the credit quality of the client as well as volatility, liquidity and concentration analysis of the portfolio. A broad understanding of Equity and Fixed Income products, as well as hedge fund trading strategies would be a distinct advantage.
- Daily interaction with Prime Services Risk Team, Account Managers Clients to ensure coverage of UBS’s credit risk within defined margin policy. Regular reporting and escalation to stakeholders across the bank on status of client portfolios.
- High client service focus – working in partnership with the Prime Services business to provide innovative solutions and market leading service to clients. Regular interaction with key clients. The individual will be expected to assess and continually improve service offering to clients.
- Stakeholder Management - Regular engagement and interaction with Prime Services Business, Credit Risk, Legal, various Operations functions, Global Prime Services Margin team and Offshore service providers. Strong communication and relationship building skills are essential.
- Continuing development of the collateral management risk infrastructure, liaising with a variety of functions within UBS to provide enhance margin methodologies in order to provide appropriate financing levels of clients’ portfolios.
- Optimising the use of assets within UBS, either pledged as collateral or held by proprietary trading books, in order to raise cash for the UBS business.
Requirements:
- 2-4 years’ experience in banking. Ideally within Collateral Management, Risk Management or a middle office area with strong product knowledge.
- Good knowledge of a broad range of products across equities fixed income.
It starts with you:
We can offer you an exciting, fast-paced working environment, a culture of mutual respect and teamwork and the opportunity to play a vital role in our growth. If you are attracted to joining an organization where every individual's contribution counts and where your talent will impact on our future, please apply for this position. It starts with you.
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