Prime Brokerage Margin & Collateral Operations Analyst

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Prime Brokerage Margin & Collateral Operations Analyst for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in lower Manhattan, New York, NY. Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite
Responsibilities:

• Monitor, calculate, and issue daily margin calls across the Prime Brokerage business, ensuring margin requirements are met accurately and on time.
• Ensure client margin accounts comply with applicable regulatory requirements and internal risk and credit guidelines.
• Support client onboarding, margin documentation reviews, and ongoing management of client-specific margin terms and financing arrangements.
• Identify and escalate margin deficiencies, account breaches, and atypical trading practices, including wire transfers and day-trading patterns.
• Investigate and resolve margin, collateral, reconciliation, and other operational breaks, discrepancies, and exceptions.
• Support collateral workflows, margining, exposure monitoring, settlements, and reconciliations.
• Prepare and update daily reports, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Monitor workflow queues to ensure deadlines and service-level expectations are met.
• Support testing, system enhancements, and process documentation updates.
• Collaborate with Operations, Risk, Compliance, Technology, counterparties, and other business partners to resolve operational issues and improve processes.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls, policies, procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Support timely, accurate, and well-controlled operational processes for Prime Services client financing activities.

Required Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in Prime Brokerage, Margin and Collateral Operations within a global financial institution, broker-dealer, or bank.
• Working knowledge of U.S. broker-dealer and bank margin regulations, including Regulation T, Regulation U, FINRA Rule 4210, SEC Rule 15c3-3, and SEC Rule 15c3-1, with the ability to calculate, interpret, and apply applicable margin requirements.
• Hands-on experience with collateral workflows, margining, and exposure reconciliation, including bilateral and tri-party processes.
• FINRA Series 99 - Operations Professional registration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to review data, identify issues, and support timely resolution.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy when working with reports, reconciliations, and operational information.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively in a fast-paced operational environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with cross-product margining across equities, fixed income, derivatives, and securities financing within a unified operational framework.
• Experience with Global One, Loan One, EquiLend, Colline, AcadiaSoft, Anvil, and/or Broadridge BPS.
• Working knowledge of OTC, Repo, and Prime Brokerage products, Asset Transfers, Portfolio Margin Regulatory Reporting, and Day Trading Practices.
• Familiarity with Prime Brokerage documentation and legal, regulatory, and trading agreements.

Education:

• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Business, or a related discipline.

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