Analyst, Market Risk

Job Description:

The primary objective of this role is to protect the firm from losses related to customer trading and borrowing activities across all lines of business while delivering outstanding customer service. You will be responsible for market risk analysis and monitoring to identify risks that exceed internal parameters and helping to drive the issues to resolution.

The Team

The candidate will join a dynamic and closely-knit Market Risk Team working in Jersey City. The team watches the markets closely, evaluates and interprets financial and statistical information and is responsible for assisting in the development, enhancement and testing of the risk management system. The team works closely with business partners and other risk and control functions.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field
• 3+ years business experience within a large-scale financial services environment
• Series 7 preferred
• Proven understanding of the brokerage business, operations & accounting, margin and option strategies
• Must be able to demonstrate strong investigative and analytical skills

• You have a strong sense of accountability and ownership in your work
• You are a proactive, driven leader with the ability to operate effectively from the conceptual stage through to a successful implementation
• You have strong analytical, influencing, and interpersonal relationship skills
• You demonstrate the ability to make timely, informed decisions that advance critical priorities, capitalize on new opportunities, and resolve problems
• You have excellent relationship and partnership skills to build networks across organizations
• You have the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to influence key decision-makers through a combination of knowledge, reasoning, and relationships
• You demonstrate expert analysis and decision making skills
• You have excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate effectively up, down, and across the organization
• You are able to present complex information in a way that is easy for others to understand and articulate a point of view in a compelling and succinct manner

• Monitoring and analyzing of margin and cash accounts triggered by real-time trading, securities/money movement activities and market volatility while mitigating exposure
• Ensuring customer accounts maintain sufficient capital to withstand a wide range of probable and possible market conditions/events
• Communicating directly with all lines of business on account escalations
• Monitoring of Correspondent Proprietary trading and allocation accounts
• Overseeing Correspondent Capital Markets trading activity trade-away
• Assisting in evaluating real-time exception requests across the Market Access program
• Coordinating with other risk groups and team members when reviewing escalated Micro-Cap exceptions
• Daily Reporting and tracking of risk processes, and exceptions