Sales/Trader (Prime Services)

Sales/Trader (Prime Services) (SG Americas Securities, LLC, New York, NY)

 Multiple positions available. Analyze market conditions, regulations, and financial data to identify investment opportunities. Ensure full compliance with investment policies, including CFTC rule 1.25 and SEC Rule 15c3-3, for all customer assets deposited under the bank’s FCM and Securities Prime Brokerage activities. Adhere to and ensure compliance with IIROC regulations in relation to SGCC FCM operations. Oversee the protection, investment, and placement of customer cash and non-cash collateral, working closely with Treasury, Operations, and Finance teams. Escalate any regulatory, operational, or trading issues as needed. Optimize customer cash and non-cash collateral across external and internal counterparties, fixed income reverse repo trading, CCPs, banks, and carrying brokers while meeting performance targets. Manage borrowings from Treasury, ensuring optimal placements, investments, and returns. Execute foreign exchange (forex) hedging to support single currency margining product. Collaborate with the Risk Management team to ensure adherence to trading risk metrics such as DV10, VaR, and stress testing. Participate in CCP and exchange collateral meetings. Support IT development efforts by enhancing trading tools and systems, including automation, pricing engines, analytical tools, and new hedging strategies. Provide short coverage and long financing on securities to external clients through internal desks. Offer financing solutions to Prime clients (Hedge Funds, PTGs, Asset Managers). Collaborate with internal teams to drive synergies in secured financing. Develop and execute strategies to grow the business sustainably, ensuring a diversified and recurring revenue stream. Optimize global book positions and scarce resources, including cash consumption, liquidity ratios, and balance sheet management. Manage daily risk exposure, position tracking, risk follow-ups, and Profit & Loss (P&L) analysis. Provide market insights and money market updates to client as part of their Prime Services experience. Salary: $ 152,339 -$275,000 per year.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

 Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Financial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as a Trader, Financial Quantitative Analyst or any occupation/position/job title optimizing Client Collateral at a global financial institution. Must also have the following: 3 years of professional experience working in a global bank with Future Commission Merchants (FCMs) or Broker Dealers (BDs); 3 years of professional experience utilizing risk knowledge to combine proprietary and CCP models for exchange traded derivatives (including VaR, cVaR, ES, SIMM, IMM, Exchange IM (including SPAN and Prisma), 3F, and Cross Margin); 3 years of professional experience analyzing balance sheets (in US GAAP and IFRS norms) and scarce resources including RWAs, Leverage, LCR and NSFR; 3 years of professional experience performing collateral management and book optimization of scarce resources (including axis, balance sheet optimization for both long and Sensitivity: Confidential short, and pricing); 3 years of professional experience pricing Options and Futures Clearing, Financing (Loan and Synthetic) and OTC and FX Clearing portfolios; 3 years of professional experience adhering to regulatory rules governing client asset including the protection of customer assets; and 3 years of professional experience performing agency execution and optimization trades and investments (including reverse repo and FX swaps).

  LINK TO EMPLOYEE REFERRAL PROGRAM: Incentives offered through the firm's Employee Referral Program are applicable to this position.  For more information, please visit our "Employee Referral Program" link in the Human Resources section of our intranet under the Talent Management tab at: http://entrenet.us.world.socgen/support_groups/human_resources/talent_management/employee_referral_program.html

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our Recruiters know.

OUR CULTURE: 
At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-culture/)

D&I: 
Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.
Our Diversity & Inclusion Vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

For more information about our D&I initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/societe-generale-about/diversity-and-inclusion/)

HYBRID WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Societe Generale offers a hybrid work arrangement that offers employees the flexibility to work remotely, as well as on-site, in order to promote interaction and collaboration with colleagues while adhering to all SG standard protocols.  Hybrid work arrangements vary based on business area.  The applicable business lines will determine and communicate the work arrangements that best meet their business needs.

COMPENSATION:
Base salary range does not include overtime pay, bonus and/or other benefits, where applicable. Actual base salary offer will vary based on skills and experience. The role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and includes a competitive benefits package including 401(k) plan with company match, medical/dental/vision, and other benefits for fertility, wellness, student loans and commuters.