Collateral Trader - VP/Director

at  CRDIT AGRICOLE CIB

DESCRIPTION DU POSTE

You will be part of a global team and be part of a growing mandate on XVA & Scarce Resource management with a focus on developing new technologies to assist with the Management of the Derivatives activity.
The role includes trading within authorised limits on the Collateral desk, pricing the various adjustments for the GMD derivatives business, improving the infrastructure of XVA computations as well as assisting with the ongoing improvement of XVA pricing methodologies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Pricing of XVAs and Profitability on new transactions
• PnL explain on COLVA and MVA
• Active Repo trading to optimise the funding of the collateral book
• Implementation of internal transfer pricing mechanisms for GMD scare resources
• Optimization of scarce resources (Rebalancing runs with dealers)
• Participating in the development of IT tools, spreadsheets
• Reporting to management the main driving figures for CA-CIB collateral portfolio

Active management of the collateral portfolio from cleared and non cleared OTC derivatives transactions:

• Manage daily margin calls exchanged with CA-CIB counterparties
• Analyse counterparties portfolio MTM dynamic and CSA contracts to identify possible optimisation
• Define and implement optimisation strategies as well as collateral funding strategies
• Assist CA-CIB commercial division in negotiating CSA terms with the bank clients
• Compute and invoice collateral funding cost to the collateralised transactions owners
• Daily computation and control of the margins exchanged with the CCPs

SPECIAL ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven trading interest (Repos, Money Markets, FX, IRS, Credit Derivatives)
• Proven risk management interest (credit risk, gap risk, major sensitivities, VaR)
• Proven programming ability (VBA, SQL, others).
• Good work organization and planning; ability to work under time constraints
• Excellent communication skills both oral and in writing
• Team spirit and ability to interact with all other team members