Associate Principal, Credit Risk Management Projects & Reporting

To be considered for this position, applications and resumes are accepted only through our careers site by directly applying to the posted job. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies. Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account. Any resume submitted outside of an active job posting will not be considered for employment.

What You'll Do:

As a member of OCC’s Credit Risk Management team, you will help safeguard OCC from counterparties who exhibit elevated credit risks.  Associate Principals are responsible, identifying, developing, measuring, monitoring, reporting, and enhancing processes that monitor thresholds and trends of various risks and exposures introduced to OCC by clearing members, banks, and other critical counterparties. Associate Principals utilize a strong technical and analytical skillset to assist Credit Department with its projects and reporting. Maintain a general understanding of the risks present within the clearing industry and/or the participating financial entities, including broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, commercial banks, pension funds, and financial market utilities.  Associate Principals mentor and train (Sr.) Associates and independently develop technology solutions for the department.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Support CORE team with analysis of ongoing creditworthiness of counterparties and escalate issues requiring enhanced surveillance to department management and internal working groups so appropriate actions can be taken.

• Support CORE team with analytical solutions to assist with financial statement analysis, including identifying levels and trends in key metrics and ratios.

• Collaborate with IT and other internal teams to design and implement advanced scalable data analytics solutions to identify and analyze causal links and meaningful relationships (e.g., correlations, distributions, percentiles). Includes centralizing data from multiple sources to automated front end visual reporting/dashboards.

• Work closely with department management on projects, cross-department collaboration, and mentoring of colleagues.  As appropriate, lead high priority department projects with minimal oversight by department management.

• Support CORE team with critical, time-sensitive, and/or complex counterparty inquiries requiring data collection or analysis.

• Support system, data, and risk methodology development, review data and risk methodologies during annual reviews, identify underlying methodology assumptions with a comprehensive set of special cases, guide methodologies through full lifecycle events, and evaluate different possible approaches/enhancements

• Develop, maintain, enhance, and adhere to written policies and procedures

• Participate in and lead procedure-related control testing activities and identify opportunities for improving the control environment

• Supervise and confirm adherence to regulatory reporting obligations

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to support audits/exams

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment

• Familiarity with financial statements, brokerage statements, and accounting records

• Proficient knowledge of the financial services industry, including the financial, market, liquidity and operational risks of broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, commercial banks, pension funds, and financial market utilities

• Proficient understanding of securities markets, derivatives, and option trading strategies

• Track record of independently managing and successfully completing high visibility projects

• Excellent organization skills – must be detail oriented

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to work and converse with executive level management

• Strong Mathematical skills and financial acumen

• Comfortable working in a customer service-oriented environment and addressing questions from both OCC colleagues and OCC counterparties, engaging users to understand issues and identify root causes, escalating incidents to appropriate teams, collaborating with others to ensure timely resolution and user satisfaction, and monitoring service performance of (Sr.) Associates

• Ability to work well under pressure with multiple priorities and time-sensitive deadlines

• Track record of accomplishments while leading a team, delegating and prioritizing work assignments, and ensuring team efficiency preferred

Technical Skills:

• Intermediate-to Advanced in Microsoft Office, including Excel experience using lookups and pivot tables to perform data analysis, and comfortable developing PowerPoint presentations

• Intermediate- to-Advanced SQL, including the ability to write and edit queries to assist with mining and visualizing data from multiple sources.

• Experience using data visualization software (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)

• Familiarity with data stack applications such as Snowflake and code versioning in Github

• Coding experience with (e.g., Python, R, VBA macros) required

• Intermediate-to-Advanced quantitative, analytical, problem solving skills, including the ability to accumulate, organize, and assimilate large amounts of information.

• Familiarity using Bloomberg and/or S&P Global Market Intelligence, and the technical ability to connect these tools to Excel preferred

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Financial Engineering, Data Science, Risk Management, Accounting, (Computational/Quantitative) Finance, or Economics) or equivalent work experience required

• 4+ years of data analytics experience or relevant financial services industry experience

• Master’s degree or progress towards a Master’s degree (preferably in Financial Engineering, Data Science, Risk Management, Accounting, (Computational/Quantitative) Finance, or Economics) preferred

Certificates or Licenses:

• Desire to earn, or progress towards, a CFA or FRM certification

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

$94,400.00 - $138,900.00

Incentive Range

8% to 15%

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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Step 3
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer