Treasury Clearing Attorney

Overview

The organization is seeking an experienced Treasury Clearing Attorney to support U.S. Treasury clearing initiatives. This role involves reviewing, drafting, and negotiating customer clearing agreements for sponsored repurchase transactions in preparation for compliance with the SEC’s U.S. Treasury clearing mandate. You will collaborate with legal, business, and credit risk teams while supporting documentation remediation and clearing readiness. Work will include CCP frameworks, margin and collateral mechanics, netting, and cross-product documentation.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, and negotiate customer clearing agreements for sponsored repurchase transactions.
• Support preparation for compliance with the SEC’s U.S. Treasury clearing mandate.
• Collaborate with internal teams to help ensure compliance with legal, business, and credit risk controls, guidelines, and procedures.
• Update agreement templates and tailor industry forms for use in client negotiations.
• Review and analyze applicable regulations and netting opinions.
• Support Treasury and repo documentation within CCP frameworks.
• Help align margin, collateral, netting, and default provisions with operational requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating clearing, repo, or related markets documentation.
• Strong understanding of repurchase transactions and Treasury clearing.
• Knowledge of margin, collateral, and netting mechanics.
• Experience reviewing regulations and netting opinions.
• Ability to work effectively with legal, business, credit risk, and operational stakeholders.
• Juris Doctor degree or equivalent and licensed to practice law in an applicable jurisdiction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with sponsored repurchase transactions and customer clearing agreements.
• Familiarity with CCP documentation and clearinghouse frameworks.
• Experience tailoring industry-standard forms and templates for client negotiations.
• Experience supporting large-scale documentation or regulatory remediation initiatives.

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated total compensation (full-time attorney roles): $104,500–$325,000 per year.
• Estimated total compensation (non-attorney roles): $71,250–$309,750 per year.
• Compensation decisions are based on factors including experience, skills, certifications, location, and business needs.
• Benefits may include health, dental, and vision insurance; paid holidays and PTO; flexible work arrangements; and professional development opportunities and tools.

Location

Remote