Prime Financial Services Margin Operations - Treasury Operations - Analyst

Job Description
The position is in the Treasury Operations team within Prime Financial Services (PFS) Margin Operations. The Treasury Operations team work closely with the global team with Operations teams based in London, Delaware, New York, Chicago and various APAC locations.
As a Treasury Operations Analyst within the Prime Financial Services team, you will manage treasury functions such as cash funding, global non-cash collateral settlements, and FX trade processing. You will also be responsible for reconciliation and break resolution, settling margin obligations at Central Counterparties, and overseeing the full life cycle of the underlying securities trades of expired options and futures. Your role will include managing collateral, optimizing client collateral holdings, and ensuring all exchange and client trades are settled within deadlines. You will also be tasked with accurately funding exchange cash accounts, processing client FX transactions, and controlling payments to clients. Additionally, you will handle CASS responsibilities for cash and collateral obligations, reconcile and resolve breaks, and address ad hoc management requests.
Job responsibilities

• Manage collateral and optimize client collateral holdings.
• Adhere to operational procedures to ensure a controlled environment, review processes regularly and implement enhancements.
• Ensure all exchange and client trades are settled within settlement and exchange deadlines.
• Fund exchange cash accounts effectively and accurately.
• Process client FX transactions, monitor the amount and type of collateral to be moved.
• Control payments to clients, ensuring clients are not paid into deficit, follow up on any counterparty fails.
• Escalate issues, where appropriate, to management.
• Deal with internal queries/issues from Middle Office and Client Services on a timely basis.
• Handle CASS responsibilities for cash and collateral obligations.
• Reconcile and resolve breaks, report findings and updates, conduct root cause analysis.
• Address ad hoc management requests and investigate operational issues.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Must be highly numerate with good keyboard and core system (Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams) skills
• Ability to work as part of a team, build relationships and be flexible during busy periods (such as end of day and month end)
• Ability to prioritize workflow, adhere to procedures and work to strict deadlines
• Dynamic & proactive team player
• An ability to identify process & procedural inefficiencies and improve capacity, efficiency and control
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), analytical and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively under pressure with a high accuracy rate
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in a methodical and organized manner
• Strong Risk and Control Awareness, with the ability to push back on stakeholders when risk/controls could be compromised
• Participate in the implementation of strategic and ongoing initiatives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of cash funding, global settlements & reconciliations
• Futures and Options / OTC market knowledge
• Working knowledge of OTC Derivative products, Futures & Options or similar background
• External client service experience, or similar experience interacting with senior/demanding internal clients
• Automation skills, such as knowledge of Alteryx

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.