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.