Job Description

About Us:
Huatai International Financial Holdings Company Limited (“Huatai International” or “the Company”), is the only overseas wholly-owned or controlled subsidiary of Huatai Securities. Huatai International is the Huatai Group’s international arm which plays as a crucial role in the group's internationalization strategy by:
a) not only providing offshore capital market services (and a global business platform) but also provides onshore clients with valuable cross-border capital market services (aligned with the mainland China government’s policies and commercial intentions);
b) actively making use of Huatai Securities’ leading position, distribution network and customer base in mainland China;
c) integrating on a global basis across many jurisdictions and regions, a successful and fully integrated international financial platform with innovative financial services solutions.

Huatai International operates as a holding company for consolidating all of the group’s cross-border businesses and companies under one umbrella, offering a truly unified and international business platform. In recognition of such international strength, the renowned international rating agency Standard and Poor’s has assigned Huatai International a “BBB+” rating (for long term) and “A-2” (for short-term).

• Issue and respond to margin calls within agreed deadlines; follow up on outstanding calls.
• Instruct collateral movements and confirm receipt/release with counterparties and custodians.
• Reconcile collateral positions and clear breaks before market open.
• Participate in New Product Approval (NPA) internal discussion forum as collateral management representative, assess impact on new product/market; Integrate new process to ensure efficiency and controlled workflow is in place to support the collateral management on new products/market roll out.
• Supervise team members or direct participate in UAT margin models, workflow queues and reporting templates; sign off before go-live.
• Monitor uncollateralized exposures, failed delivery counts and segregation breaches; escalate breaches immediately. Prepare daily MI for senior management
• Compile regulatory returns on collateral quality, concentration and re-hypothecation.
• Identify manual touch-points; Take the lead to optimize E2E collateral management processing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or related disciplines
• 8 years + of experience in banking operations
• Solid product knowledge on OTC Derivatives, including front-to-back processing workflow
• In depth understanding of margin/collateral processes and collateral portfolio reconciliations
• Ability to work on own initiative and communicate effectively
• Organized and efficient with ability to multi-task
• Strong risk management and control mindset
• Diligent, committed and able to work under pressure and tight timelines
• Advantageous to have knowledge of Cloudmargin, Clearstream, Euroclear and Calypso.
• Good command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin)