Updated: Feb 24, 2025 - The Derivatives Analyst oversees global daily margin activities for various financial instruments, including Securities Lending, OTC Derivatives, and Capital Markets, while managing trade settlements and internal security operations. This position resolves cash and security discrepancies, contributes to the development and integration of new applications and automates processes to enhance efficiency. This role prepares analytical reports on investment strategies and portfolio management, collaborating with investment managers to develop new financial products.


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1. Derivatives Analyst, Alaris Investment Partners, Arlington, TX
Job Summary:
- Reconciling and valuing OTC derivatives portfolios
- Implementation of new clients on trade/pricing systems
- Affirming/confirming OTC trades and fixed-income trades
- Assist clients in day-to-day cash management needs
- Assist client in exporting trades to custodians and prime brokers
- Assist clients in managing margin requirements
- Supporting yearend audit/financial statement processes
- Actively work to improve derivative capabilities, simplify workflows and processes
- Support build and design of Derivatives Funding and Collateral function within Global Trading
- Perform daily analysis of derivatives funding and collateral portfolios for Global Trading and Investment Teams
- Apply and embrace new technology solutions to improve business workflows and Trading Analysis
Skills on Resume:
- OTC Derivatives Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Trade System Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Trade Confirmation Skills (Hard Skills)
- Cash Management Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Custodian Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Margin Management (Hard Skills)
- Audit Support (Hard Skills)
- Technology Utilization (Hard Skills)
2. Derivatives Analyst, Horizon Capital Group, Bellevue, WA
Job Summary:
- Manage daily corporate action events by reviewing desk updates, loading new loan detail, and collateralizing new cash and non-cash loans.
- Contribute to discussions on process improvement and system development.
- Check DTC RAD for new loans
- Cancel EOD loans not taken in by brokers
- Review auto-match trades, daily investments, daily mark-to-market
- Monitor services provided by the offshore control team and communicate with business for any escalation from offshore teams
- Monitor life-cycling/corporate action events on structured products
- Work with Trading, Trade Capture team, Product Control and Market Risk on resolving any queries from internal or external sources
- Actively question and challenge existing practices/procedures and make improvement suggestions
- Ensuring effective product governance measures are held and good investor outcomes are central to the running of the portfolios
- Advising Product, Risk and Operational units on derivative strategies and implementation
Skills on Resume:
- Corporate Actions Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- DTC RAD Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Trade Cancellation (Hard Skills)
- Auto-Match Trade Review (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Critical Thinking (Soft Skills)
- Advisory on Derivative Strategies (Soft Skills)
3. Derivatives Analyst, Quantum Financial Solutions, Naples, FL
Job Summary:
- Oversee the offshore CFD/ETD team and OTC teams to ensure that KPIs are being met.
- Chair regular oversight calls and ensure that all issues are monitored and resolved.
- Chair regular client and broker calls and drive requirements.
- Provide SME advice for the offshore teams.
- Ensure CFD resets and ETD margins/FXs are completed by due deadlines.
- Process OTC trades and lifecycle events and ensure accounting is accurate.
- Perform OTC reconciliations with vendor and middle office data.
- Produce client month end reports in an accurate and timely manner.
- Monitor daily deliverables and drive through efficiency and process improvement.
- Maintain a strong control environment across the team.
Skills on Resume:
- Team Oversight (Soft Skills)
- Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Client Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Subject Matter Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Deadline Management (Hard Skills)
- Trade Processing Accuracy (Hard Skills)
- Reconciliation Skills (Hard Skills)
- Control Environment Maintenance (Hard Skills)
4. Derivatives Analyst, Crestline Financial Advisors, Boulder, CO
Job Summary:
- Review and execute daily margin activity globally for Securities Lending, OTC Derivatives, Exchanged Traded Derivatives, Capital Markets and MSFTAs.
- Manage the daily trade settlement process for FED and DTC securities with CPs and custody bank; initiate internal security moves between MetLife portfolios as necessary.
- Investigate and resolve daily cash and security breaks.
- Contribute to analysis, development, testing, and integration of new applications and enhancements.
- Prepare and review daily, weekly, and quarterly reports for Senior Management.
- Ability to liaise with Trading, Middle Office, Legal, PMU, Audit, and Back Office.
- Look for new ways to automate and increase efficiency within the current workflow.
- Analyzing and reporting on existing investment strategies, designed and managed by Investment Managers
- Analyzing current product portfolios
- Work across teams to develop new products and ensure all investments are effectively managed and overseen by the business
- Liaising with Investment Managers (internal and external) to design, assess and create portfolios for new/ developing funds
Skills on Resume:
- Margin Activity Management (Hard Skills)
- Trade Settlement Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Cash and Security Break Resolution (Hard Skills)
- Application Development Contribution (Hard Skills)
- Report Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Team Liaison (Soft Skills)
- Workflow Automation (Soft Skills)
- Portfolio Analysis (Hard Skills)
5. Derivatives Analyst, Equinox Trading LLC, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Work closely with the PPA team to develop sound workflows and validations of derivative data and valuations
- Routinely update valuations to generate actual prices for PPAs/derivatives and counterparty risk
- Routinely update validation procedures ensuring the integrity and consistency of various market data inputs, including power curves, yield curves, and implied volatilities
- Identify, own, and resolve issues identified through analysis of exceptions
- Interact with the PPA team and Project Finance team to resolve pricing model and market data issues
- Review results of reconciliation of derivative valuations vs. counterparty valuations to understand differences and to support collateral dispute function
- Provide timely, accurate, and thorough support of internal and external valuation-related inquiries
- Support activities relating to the extensive pipeline of change activity for clients.
- Develop strong, pro-active working relationships with all internal and external customers, co-ordinating remote teams and external vendors.
- Provide professional support to identified areas of the business and share specialist knowledge with colleagues and clients.
- Maintain own standards of excellence and keep up to date with the latest industry developments.
Skills on Resume:
- Workflow Development (Hard Skills)
- Valuation Updates (Hard Skills)
- Market Data Validation (Hard Skills)
- Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Pricing Model Interaction (Soft Skills)
- Derivative Reconciliation Review (Hard Skills)
- Customer Support (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
6. Derivatives Analyst, Apex Investment Strategies, Durham, NC
Job Summary:
- Work closely with Portfolio Services and investment personnel to develop sound workflows and validations of OTC derivative data and valuations.
- Execute daily valuation procedures to generate end-of-day prices for OTC Derivatives.
- Execute daily validation procedures ensuring the integrity and consistency of various market data inputs, including yield curves, credit curves, and implied volatilities.
- Identify, own, and resolve issues identified through analysis of exceptions.
- Interact with trading, investors, and Information Technology to resolve pricing model and market data issues.
- Review results of reconciliation of OTC derivative valuations vs. counterparty valuations to understand differences and to support collateral dispute function.
- Provide timely, accurate, and thorough support of internal and external clients’ OTC valuation-related inquiries.
- Assist manager, team, and IT in the development of additional utilities needed to automate, control, validate, and research data issues in the Calypso and Wellington Pricing Application.
- Ensure that controls are adhered to and evidenced daily
- Ensure that procedures are followed and updated regularly
- Undertake various tactical and strategic initiatives to improve performance
- Attend internal and external meetings with Clients and Counterparties
Skills on Resume:
- Workflow Development (Hard Skills)
- Daily Valuation Execution (Hard Skills)
- Market Data Validation (Hard Skills)
- Issue Ownership and Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Cross-Functional Interaction (Soft Skills)
- OTC Valuation Reconciliation (Hard Skills)
- Client Support (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
7. Derivatives Analyst, Nexa Asset Management, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Monitoring and reconciliations of OTC Derivative trades
- Checking of trade confirmations versus the Fund Accounting system
- Providing trade information to interested parties
- Investigating and resolving queries and inquiries from internal and external clients
- Performing reasonability checks on all new open and closed trades
- Managing life cycle events for OTC products
- Provide support to the Team Leader and Department Manager
- Reconcile OTC trades on time & accurately
- Manual processing of failed trades
- Proactively address all queries in a time-efficient manner
- Ensure that all team duties are completed within internal, market and SLA deadlines and timeframes
Skills on Resume:
- Trade Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Trade Confirmation Checking (Hard Skills)
- Trade Information Provision (Soft Skills)
- Query Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Reasonability Checks (Hard Skills)
- Lifecycle Management (Hard Skills)
- Management Support (Soft Skills)
- Timely Reconciliation (Hard Skills)