Global Banking & Markets, Prime Client Services, Associate - New York

Job Summary & Responsibilities

Prime Services delivers financing, clearing, and risk management solutions to hedge funds, institutional investors, and broker-dealers across equities, fixed income, derivatives, and OTC markets. Associates serve as the primary point of contact for CFOs, COOs, accounting and operations professionals at these clients managing client relationships, delivering cross-asset solutions, and enhancing the client experience. This role provides direct exposure to front-office activity, hedge funds, and ownership of client relationships.

This role offers a strong foundation in prime brokerage and client coverage, combining technical product exposure with client interaction and cross-functional execution. Associates develop the skills necessary to progress into senior client-facing roles within a leading global platform. As an Associate, you will i) gain direct exposure to hedge fund clients and portfolio financing strategies, ii) training across equities, fixed income, futures, and derivatives products, iii) opportunity to build client-facing skills and progress into a coverage role, and iv) collaboration with senior stakeholders across trading, risk, and operations

Job Function: 

Client Coverage & Execution

• Support day-to-day management of hedge fund and institutional client relationships

• Respond to client inquiries and ensure timely resolution of issues

• Prepare materials for client meetings and assist with follow-ups

Portfolio & Risk Monitoring

• Monitor client portfolios, including leverage, margin, and financing exposures

• Identify and escalate potential risks or discrepancies

• Support delivery of insights to improve client transparency and decision-making

Product & Platform Exposure

• Develop working knowledge of securities financing, derivatives, and clearing solutions

• Assist in identifying opportunities to expand client engagement across products

• Support onboarding and adoption of internal reporting and trading platforms

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Partner with trading, legal, compliance, and operations teams to deliver client solutions

• Support onboarding and ensure smooth execution of new account setups

• Assist with time-sensitive requests in a fast-paced environment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 1–3 years of relevant experience (financial services, operations, or capital markets) 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Effective communication and interpersonal abilities

• Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines

• Series 7, 63, SIE (is required within 90 days of hire)

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to listed options, futures, or electronic trading  

• Interest in financial markets and alternative asset managers 

• Team-oriented with a proactive, results-driven mindset

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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