Overview
In this role you drive securities lending and financing activities in a leading fintech environment. You will work with Treasury, Trading, and Risk to optimize inventory, manage collateral and funding, and capture revenue opportunities while maintaining disciplined risk controls. You’ll build strong counterparty relationships and leverage data-driven insights to improve trading and operations. The role offers exposure across the structured investment value chain and collaborative, fast-paced problem solving.
Leistungen / Benefits
- modern offices in exceptional location
- insight opportunities across all departments
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Trade and price securities loan and borrow with banks and institutional investors
- Secure borrow for short positions and trading strategies, including hard-to-borrow securities
- Allocate securities to optimize inventory and reduce borrowing costs
- Monitor daily P&L, positions, fees, and counterparty exposures
- Manage loan recalls, returns, renewals, and settlement risk
- Assess collateral eligibility, haircuts, and funding implications
- Monitor corporate actions and their impact on loan economics
- Develop counterparty relationships and diversify borrow sources
- Coordinate with Treasury, Trading, Structuring, Risk, Legal and Operations
- Identify process improvements via data analysis and automation with Technology
- Foster relationships with Operations, Product Control, Risk and other functions
- Maintain compliance with trading mandates, limits, and market rules
Zentrale Anforderungen
- University degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics or related discipline
- Minimum 3–5 years experience in Securities Lending, Securities Finance, Repo or Derivatives Trading
- Proven ability to trade actively while managing risk
- Thorough understanding of equity and fixed-income settlement mechanics
- Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret market trends and corporate actions
- Experience working with counterparties and internal stakeholders with negotiation skills
- Intellectual curiosity and strong interest in financial markets
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced trading environment
- Familiarity with legal documentation: GMSLA, GMRA, ISDA
- Advanced Excel and proficiency in SQL, Python, VBA or Business Objects
- Strong work ethic, energy, and self-motivation
- Collaborative yet autonomous in a dynamic environment
- relationship management
- negotiation
- communication
- Excel advanced
- SQL
- Python
Securities Lending Trader in Zürich Arbeitgeber: Leonteq
Als Arbeitgeber bietet unser Unternehmen eine dynamische und innovative Arbeitsumgebung, in der Sie als Secondary Market Trader nicht nur Ihre Fähigkeiten im Handel mit strukturierten Produkten unter Beweis stellen können, sondern auch aktiv zur Weiterentwicklung unserer Handelsinfrastruktur beitragen. Wir fördern eine Kultur der Zusammenarbeit und des Wachstums, in der Sie durch kontinuierliche Weiterbildung und enge Zusammenarbeit mit verschiedenen Teams Ihre Karriere vorantreiben können. Zudem profitieren Sie von flexiblen Arbeitsmodellen und einem starken Fokus auf die Einhaltung regulatorischer Standards, was Ihnen ermöglicht, in einem verantwortungsvollen und unterstützenden Umfeld zu arbeiten.
