Associate Collateral Management Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Requisition ID: 262928

 Salary Range: 155,000.00 - 185,000.00 

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate's relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

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Associate, Collateral Optimization, New York, NY
Global Banking and Markets
Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank's strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.
Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.
Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries!  We work together to drive ambition for every future!
Purpose
The Collateral Optimization desk sits within the broader Collateral Management and Funding group and has the mandate to fund non Govt/Sovereign assets on behalf of Capital Markets into the secondary market (via SFT transactions) to mitigate Wholesale Funding drawdowns and looks to find solutions to reduce and neutralize liquidity metric footprints businesses have to overall balance sheet.

Accountabilities 

Responsibility for: 
-    Execution of Collateral Trading (via SBL and Repo transactions)
-    Management of trading book (asset and liability) 
-    Liquidity & Capital Management
-    Collateral Fund Transfer Pricing

Manage and rebalance sourcing and use of collateral to meet portfolio mix, tenor, profitability, risk, liquidity, and resource management targets (balance sheet, wholesale funding, capital, FX Limits, leverage, and liquidity ratios).

Provide accurate and transparent secured funding FTP while supporting the reduction of the RSF footprint for NSFR (equity as IA under UMR, QE balance sheet reduction) via ASF opportunities. 

Global business partnership to improve intraday liquidity, interoperability, and optimisation of assets and funding (including XVA visibility for IM and VM). Partner with initial stakeholders to identify optimization opportunities, reduce balance sheet drag, and deliver data-driven insights.

Execute on trading strategy and strategic business decisions made by FRM group and Group Treasury.

Sales and Relationship management - maintain and build key Bank client relationships, whilst also seeking out new client opportunities and pockets of liquidity. Be visible and active in the market to keep up with market trends. Work internally across GBM to build relationships and find more ancillary business or cross-sell opportunities to help improve the overall GBM revenues. Work closely with the client chaperone team and other internal stakeholders to drive new client onboards, expanding the desk's counterparty network and secured funding capacity.

Broaden the participation in collateral trading/matching platforms to improve benchmarking and increase industry visibility.

Lead enhancements for improvements to data quality and metrics, technology solutions and business architectures. 

Implement systematic controls regarding utilization of assets during dividend and corporate action cycles while improving utilization in line with BNS source rates.

Achieve Utility trading book concept of P&L flat - distributing costs transparently and fairly to business lines.  
Monetize surplus collateral where applicable to reduce firm costs and/or generate P&L. 

Prepare and distribute market commentary on secured funding and ABCP market conditions, keeping internal stakeholders and clients informed on sentiment, liquidity trends, and supply/demand dynamics.

Contribute to team development through mentoring junior analysts, supporting onboarding efforts, and participating in cross-functional knowledge-sharing initiatives

Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.

Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook, and the Code of Conduct. 

Contribute to a high-performance environment and fosters an inclusive work environment, supporting the vison/values/business strategy for the team.

Interested?
At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That's why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.
What's in it for you?
Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work - and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.

Location(s):  United States : New York : New York City

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