Senior Associate, Market Risk Execution

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · New York, NY · Treasury

This role focuses on managing market risk for a financial services company, specifically for mortgage-related assets and hedging activities. It involves monitoring exposures, supporting hedge implementation, analyzing hedge effectiveness, and preparing risk reports. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical background, interest in fixed income and mortgage products, and experience in Treasury or Capital Markets.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assist in the design, implementation, and rebalancing of hedging strategies using approved instruments, including derivatives and cash market hedges.
  2. Prepare daily and weekly risk reports covering hedge positions, sensitivities, exposure changes, P&L attribution, and hedge effectiveness.
  3. Track asset and liability duration, convexity, and key rate exposures across mortgage-related positions.
  4. Partner with senior Treasury team members to evaluate hedge needs driven by origination flows, retained production, portfolio runoff, prepayment behavior, and market moves.
  5. Help execute hedge transactions within approved policies, limits, and governance frameworks.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Accounting, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 1–3 years of experience in Treasury, Capital Markets, market risk, fixed income, mortgage finance, ALM, or a related field; strong internships may be considered.
  • Foundational understanding of interest rates, fixed income instruments, and mortgage products.
  • Familiarity with concepts such as duration, convexity, DV01, key rate risk, spread risk, and hedge effectiveness.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to interpret market data and portfolio sensitivities.
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage recurring processes with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Effective communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple deadlines.

Nice to have

  • Exposure to agency/non-agency mortgages, mortgage servicing rights, pipeline hedging, or mortgage-backed securities.
  • Experience supporting hedging activity with swaps, Treasury futures, TBA securities, options, or other interest rate hedging instruments.
  • Familiarity with asset-liability management, funds transfer pricing, or Treasury risk governance.
  • Understanding of hedge accounting and valuation concepts is a plus.
  • experience with SQL, Python, VBA, or risk/reporting tools is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • market risk
  • hedging strategies
  • risk reporting
  • balance sheet risk management
  • fixed income
  • mortgage products