Head Of Stock Loan - UK

About Clear Street:

Clear Street is modernising the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimising risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we are building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Role:

We are looking to hire a Head of Stock Loan for our UK and Europe business. This will be an opportunity for an experienced securities lending professional to come in to help shape and build this business line. You will be responsible for building out the Stock Loan team and product and will manage the negotiation and facilitation of borrowing, lending and synthetic transactions between various market participants. Reporting into the CEO for Clear Street UK entity, you will be the business head for the stock loan desk in the UK, responsible for developing the stock loan product and supporting the firm as it grows Its international prime brokerage business across the UK and Europe. 

The Team:

Clear Street’s mission is to become a single-source platform that serves a variety of investor types across multiple asset classes on a global scale. The Clear Street U.K. team is bringing Clear Street’s established equities, options, and fixed-income prime brokerage business to a new market.

Responsibilities:

• Senior stock loan lead for the UK regulated entity, supporting the senior management team in their business objectives across UK and Europe
• Build, establish and lead the stock loan team within the UK and Europe
• Work with internal teams to ensure all procedures and controls are documented and implemented
• Risk management of the firm’s inventory positions on a daily basis
• Understand and navigate the structural and regulatory environment
• Optimisation of inventory through corporate actions and funding 
• Price and trade synthetic borrow via equity derivatives. 
• Collaborate with internal desk in order to project desk funding requirements. 
• Risk Manage the FX, Interest Rates, XCCY and Equity risk of the firm. 
• Maintain awareness of all economic and financial data and any other important factors (e.g. macroeconomic) likely to affect the client base and products being marketed

Skills required:

• At least ten (10) years of experience and extensive knowledge in the areas of Securities Lending, Repo, Equity Swaps, Funding Instruments, FX and Interest Rate products 
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, or related field
• Deep understanding of the legal documentation required for Securities Lending and Repo
• Confident communicator with the ability to quickly build relationships with external clients and counterparties, and internal stakeholders
• Strong understanding of equity derivatives (swaps/futures), equity and FICC markets with solid knowledge of market competition 
• Experienced people leader with a strong work ethic who can build and develop high performing teams 
• Analytic approach with attention to detail 

We Offer:

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.