Margin & Collateral Specialist

Make your mark supporting collateral operations with strong control discipline, career growth, and collaboration across business and technology teams.

As a Collateral Operations Specialist within Collateral Operations, you will be responsible for margin call management, regulatory adherence, and cross-business metrics and projects. You will build a culture of continuous improvement by partnering across back-office, middle-office, and global teams. You will interact with operations and technology stakeholders to provide business support and drive well-controlled outcomes.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage daily margin calls and collateral exchanges, including same-day settlement activities, exceptions, and dispute handling.
• Reconcile mark-to-market breaks, including investigating data quality-related issues.
• Diagnose upstream process and data drivers to reduce recurring breaks and operational friction.
• Coordinate with middle-office partners, credit risk stakeholders, and valuation teams to resolve breaks and align on actions.
• Ensure adherence to applicable regulations, including non-cleared margin rules and other relevant regulatory requirements.
• Enhance process controls to support accurate execution and sustained regulatory compliance.
• Execute user acceptance testing for process, system, and control changes.

Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities:

• Hold a graduate or postgraduate degree and bring 2+ years of experience in operations.
• Demonstrate familiarity with capital markets and over-the-counter derivatives products, processes, and systems.
• Apply a hands-on approach to deliver results and drive issues through to closure.
• Communicate clearly in writing and verbally with business and technology stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Use Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Access.
• Prioritize work effectively to meet tight deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Adapt schedule flexibility to support global stakeholders across time zones.

Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities:

• Leverage working knowledge of key margin-related regulations, including Commodity Futures Trading Commission requirements and European Market Infrastructure Regulation obligations.
• Navigate over-the-counter derivatives operations processes across confirmations, collateral management, and reconciliations, including associated platforms.
• Demonstrate openness to modern tooling and continuous improvement. Exposure to AI-enabled tools and willingness to adopt emerging technologies that support process improvement and operational excellence.