APAC Treasury Analyst
Cumberland
As an APAC Treasury Analyst, you’ll liaise with both internal and external teams (trading desks, counterparties, exchanges, prime brokers, bankers) to perform research and analysis on a variety of trading-related matters, including cash management, clearance, and settlements. You’ll work with different types of securities financing, including prime brokerage, swap, tri-party, stock loan, and repo. You’ll also help develop new tools and processes to support a wide variety of existing and new businesses.
What you’ll be working on:
- Managing different types of securities financing, including prime brokerage, swap, tri-party, stock loan, and repo primarily in APAC markets (Hong Kong, on-shore and off-shore China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, etc.)
- Assisting in the analysis and development of new trading ideas and new trading desks transacting in equities/ETFs, fixed income and commodities (base and precious metals)
- Performing liquidity reserve maintenance, investment, and reporting
- Managing relationships with trading desks, counterparties, exchanges, and prime brokers
- Work directly with trading desks to understand capital considerations for new trading strategies
- Identifying process improvements, defining functional requirements for systems, and implementing change
- Optimize our trading books across diverse set of clearing and financing relationships within the scarce resource constraints of our providers
- Generating reports for partners, traders and other support areas
- Designing new tools to optimize positions in order to gain efficiencies and capitalize on new market opportunities (and to make most educated trading decisions)
What’s needed in this role:
- At least 5 years of experience in equity finance and supporting equities trading businesses
- Strong knowledge of futures and options markets, strategies and risk management
- Familiarity with APAC markets, trading regulations, trading entity structures (WFOE, QFII, etc.)
- Familiarity with a variety of financial products
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a fast-paced team environment
- Excellent analytical skills, strong attention to detail and exceptional follow-through
- Strong project management skills
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Previous data analysis experience
- SQL or VBA experience is a plus
- Bachelor’s degree