Sales/Trader (Prime Services)
Societe Generale
Responsibilities
Sales/Trader (Prime Services) (SG Americas Securities, LLC, New York, NY)
Multiple positions available. Analyze market conditions, regulations, and financial data to identify investment opportunities. Ensure full compliance with investment policies, including CFTC rule 1.25 and SEC Rule 15c3-3, for all customer assets deposited under the bank’s FCM and Securities Prime Brokerage activities. Adhere to and ensure compliance with IIROC regulations in relation to SGCC FCM operations. Oversee the protection, investment, and placement of customer cash and non-cash collateral, working closely with Treasury, Operations, and Finance teams. Escalate any regulatory, operational, or trading issues as needed. Optimize customer cash and non-cash collateral across external and internal counterparties, fixed income reverse repo trading, CCPs, banks, and carrying brokers while meeting performance targets. Manage borrowings from Treasury, ensuring optimal placements, investments, and returns. Execute foreign exchange (forex) hedging to support single currency margining product. Collaborate with the Risk Management team to ensure adherence to trading risk metrics such as DV10, VaR, and stress testing. Participate in CCP and exchange collateral meetings. Support IT development efforts by enhancing trading tools and systems, including automation, pricing engines, analytical tools, and new hedging strategies. Provide short coverage and long financing on securities to external clients through internal desks. Offer financing solutions to Prime clients (Hedge Funds, PTGs, Asset Managers). Collaborate with internal teams to drive synergies in secured financing. Develop and execute strategies to grow the business sustainably, ensuring a diversified and recurring revenue stream. Optimize global book positions and scarce resources, including cash consumption, liquidity ratios, and balance sheet management. Manage daily risk exposure, position tracking, risk follow-ups, and Profit & Loss (P&L) analysis. Provide market insights and money market updates to client as part of their Prime Services experience. Salary: $ 152,339 -$275,000 per year.
