Securities Services - Exposure Management - Associate

Be at the center of risk management for a global leader in Securities Services. Your expertise will help drive the safety and soundness of our business, supporting institutional clients and enabling innovation across markets.

As an Associate in Exposure Management, you will play a critical role in overseeing and analyzing exposures for the Global Securities Services group, with a primary focus on the North America business. You’ll work closely with trading desks and risk teams, ensuring robust risk culture, compliance, and effective communication across regions and products. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on the firm’s risk management and client service.

Job responsibilities:

• Develop a healthy risk culture with the desk that fosters information sharing, awareness of firm policies, and escalation of key issues.

• Manage multiple projects focused on the development and continued improvement of exposure reporting and processes.

• Monitor and analyze market trends and movements, relate them to desk activities, and share insights with the global team.

• Review proposed trades, participate in client prospect meetings, and ensure sufficient capitalization for exposures taken in each transaction.

• Ensure compliance with mandates for Security Services trading desks, including Contingent Market, Basis, Fiduciary, Credit, Liquidity, and Operational Risks.

• Conduct daily reviews of trading desk exposures, significant changes, compliance with risk limits, and stress results.

• Communicate regularly with Trading Desks, Product colleagues, Quant Research, Credit Risk Officers, Risk Management, Product Control, Product Development, and Technology.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Computer Science, or Mathematics; Top Tier College or University a plus.

• Basic knowledge of securities markets and how these instruments are impacted by various market factors.

• Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve, process large amounts of data efficiently, and understand the context and implications of the work.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills; ability to program (e.g., Python, VBA, R, SQL, or Java) a plus.

• Strong relationship building, presentation, written and oral communication skills.

• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, meet challenging deadlines, and work well in a team environment.

• Strong quantitative background and understanding of risk and/or pricing models.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with exposure management or risk/reward analysis in a financial services environment.

• Familiarity with securities lending, repo transactions, derivatives, FX, and money market products.

• Ability to create actionable insights and drive process improvements.

• Experience working with cross-functional and global teams.