Markets Capital Optimization Analyst, Officer

Who We Are Looking For

State Street Markets ("SSM") is looking for an Officer to join the SSM Risk and FRM team in Boston. The team manages Credit, Market, and Model Risk as the First Line of Defense across SSM’s business units, including Financing Solutions, FX Sales & Trading, Portfolio Solutions, and Global Link. Additionally, the team performs Financial Resource Management, covering allocation, monitoring, and optimization of capital, funding, and liquidity.

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Markets. As a leading provider of trading and lending solutions to the world’s institutional investors, we deliver the industry’s most innovative platforms, financing and portfolio solutions. Our capabilities are backed by proprietary, high-value research, insights and indicators that power clients’ investment decisions, accelerate performance and help investors stay ahead of shifting markets.

Across our comprehensive set of solutions – data‑driven macro market intelligence that give an information advantage; client‑first platforms and tools that redefine trading; financing solutions that streamline liquidity access; and portfolio solutions designed to help achieve peak performance – we deliver a breakthrough edge to drive business success. The Capital and Liquidity Optimization team is responsible for managing and optimizing the first line risk and regulatory exposures across the Markets products.

The team facilitates continued business and revenue growth by optimizing programs under Basel III capital and liquidity regulations along with other firm‑wide resource constraints. This Officer role will be responsible for supporting management in tasks such as developing, producing and monitoring regulatory exposures, resource forecasting and communicating regulatory impacts to senior management. A significant degree of autonomy, including making careful decisions and coordinating with groups across the organization, is a requirement.

The role is located in Boston, with a minimum of 4 days per week in the office.

Join us if making your mark in the capital markets industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

• Collaborate with the Corporate and SSBI Finance teams (Capital Planning, Balance Sheet Strategy, Stress Testing, BU Finance, and Liquidity Management) to enhance analysis, forecasts and minimize capital, balance sheet and liquidity exposures
• Work with senior analysts to develop and produce Basel III, Capital and Liquidity Stress Tests and other regulatory exposures
• Create and update senior management reporting and forecasting to communicate capital and liquidity internal targets/requirements and help optimize resources to clients
• Liase with the Recovery and Resolution Planning “RRP” teams to streamline and enhance annual RRP assumptions, deliverables and playbooks for all Markets business lines
• Work closely with Global Treasury and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to ensure regulatory exposures accurately reflect the Financing Solutions and Foreign Exchange business models
• Ad Hoc projects that include: creation of new reporting, data analysis, creating Python code, etc.
• Provide and present written analyses, commentary, reports and slides to management in order to effectively communicate the business units’ resource impact on State Street’s short‑term and long‑term Revenue, ROE and EPS goals

• Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, experience in data mining and reporting extremely useful
• Capable of multi‑tasking and working in a fast paced trading environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, computer science or related field
• Minimum 1-3 years’ experience in a relevant role
• High level of competency in Excel;
  Experience in Python preferred
• Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, experience in data mining…