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Securities Financing Trader/Collateral Trading

Primary office location
London
Date
27-Jul-2025
Permanent - Full time, Mid-senior
Job category
Sales, Structuring & Trading
The Secured Financing business at Macquarie is a rapidly growing business. It primarily trades repo and securities lending to manage funding, liquidity, collateral and regulatory metrics for the markets facing businesses across equities and fixed income securities.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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You will be instrumental to drive business growth and execute on its strategy. You will also help expand the collateral trading and funding management capabilities of the business across both equities and fixed income securities. You will be expected to have strong experience and understanding across a wide spectrum of collateral and funding trading products and will work in close collaboration with multiple internal stakeholders and develop a network of external clients to deliver business outcomes.

What you offer

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  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and analytical thinking/mathematical acumen 
  • Prior trading experience (ideally 6+ years) of Securities Lending across Equities and Fixed Income in a funding/collateral trading role 
  • Good knowledge of hedging FX exposures and optimising for FX basis
  • A good level of understanding of key regulatory concepts (Liquid Coverage Ratio, Net Stable Funding Ratio, Capital, Balance Sheet)
  • Prior experience of fixed income short coverage will be beneficial
  • Capability of building workflows (Power BI, Dataiku), basic VBA coding and/or Python will be beneficial
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

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At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:

  • 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
  • 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers
  • Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment
  • 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
  • Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options
  • Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including, comprehensive medical and life insurance cover
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
  • Access to company funded emergency and backup dependent care services
  • Recognition and service awards
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
  • Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Commodities and Global Markets

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Commodities and Global Markets is a global business offering capital and financing, risk management, market access, physical execution and logistics solutions to its diverse client base across Commodities, Financial Markets and Asset Finance.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply regardless of their identity, including age, disability, neurodiversity, gender (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, parental status, race (including ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals as required during the recruitment process and in the course of employment. If you require additional assistance, please let us know during the application process.