VP, Prime Brokerage Risk Management

Title: VP, Prime Brokerage Risk Management

Office Status: Hybrid Jersey City, NJ

Base Salary: $150k $200k + Bonus

ABOUT THE ROLE

This Vice President opportunity sits within the Risk Management function of a well-established, full-service securities firm and investment bank, offering broad ownership across margin risk management, stress testing, and liquidity risk oversight across a complex, multi-asset client portfolio spanning equities, options, fixed income, FX, and derivatives. The role combines daily margin management and limit monitoring with firm-wide risk exposure analysis, stress testing, and VaR requiring someone equally comfortable managing concentrated positions and volatile market events reactively and proactively. It's an ideal fit for an experienced risk management professional with 10+ years of securities industry experience who brings deep knowledge of prime brokerage, clearing and settlement, and complex options margining in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all margin requirements on client accounts at the security, portfolio, and firm-wide platform level;set appropriate margin requirements and policies to mitigate risk across the entire client base
• Analyze risk exposure across the firm;manage exposure arising from margin loans, large concentrated trades, and volatile market moves proactively and reactively addressing concentration risk, liquidity risk, and market volatility
• Perform stress testing and VaR analysis on complex portfolios comprising equities, options, fixed income, and futures;conduct ad hoc business and liquidity analysis on key drivers and accounts
• Issue margin calls for client accounts and monitor limit breaches for proprietary trading desks
• Set margin lending rates and trading limits across a wide array of securities and business lines including repo lending, stock loan, agency execution, and investment banking
• Mitigate liquidity risk and funding requirements arising from institutional trading by interfacing with street-side and central counterparties
• Facilitate the clearance of large transactions from execution through settlement
• Perform other tasks and duties as required and assigned by senior management