Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

TD Securities

Pay Details:

$100,000 - $125,000 CAD

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.

With more than 6,900 professionals operating out of 32 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.

We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

The Advisory Contract and Execution (ACE) Team is an integral part of TD Securities. ACE is a client facing team responsible for advisory services across trading desks and clients, supporting capital markets deal origination including execution of regulatory and legal trading agreement requirements globally. This team maximizes revenue generation, ensures alignment with TD’s risk appetite, and delivers a client-centric experience. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing team with significant visibility at the senior executive level. 

The Associate is responsible for a portfolio of clients and related capital markets legal agreements throughout the origination process for specific trading products across global markets. The position offers an opportunity to gain hands-on transactional and legal experience across multiple products, with a high level of responsibility in a fast-paced and dynamic global markets environment. The Associate must ensure that the Bank is adequately protected from legal, credit, business, and compliance risk in all of its trading documents; including master agreements, amendments, assignments and other legal documentation between TD Securities and its counterparties. The Associate will also be required to build and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders across the bank and its counterparties.

Principal Responsibilities

• Negotiate a robust portfolio of capital markets agreements globally across specific trading products, while aligning with internal risk, legal, regulatory and governance frameworks and ensuring accelerated time to market.
• Review, draft, and finalize capital markets legal agreements across a range of trading products, ensuring alignment with risk, legal, regulatory and governance frameworks and accelerated time-to-market.
• Communicate capital markets agreement terms to business lines, clients and their legal counsel in a clear and efficient, business-friendly manner.
• Work with the trading desks to understand client needs and track and prioritize high value relationships.
• Ensure that the Bank is adequately protected in all dealings by preparing and negotiating capital markets agreements, including ISDA Master Agreements, related credit support documentation, prime brokerage agreements, master confirmation agreements, energy and metals agreements, repo and securities lending agreements, and other bespoke capital markets agreements.
• Provide timely support across multiple time zones including North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Collaborate and coordinate with internal stakeholders, such as Front Office, Legal, Credit, Operations, Funding and Valuations, and Collateral Management during the origination and negotiation process.
• Develop a strong understanding of the Bank’s requirements in areas of global regulatory framework, credit and documentation.
• Utilize technology to track and monitor workflow, maintaining and updating databases with required information.
• Produce reports and status updates as required.
• Escalate issues proactively and in a timely manner.
• Participate in a range of capital markets agreement initiatives related to the legal and regulatory aspects of derivatives products.

Job Requirements

• Law degree is required.
• 2 + years of experience in legal, trading documentation, capital markets or a related experience preferred but not required. 
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills, and drafting ability.
• Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task and work independently while understanding when to involve other team members as needed and to work effectively in a team environment.
• High degree of integrity and strong work ethic. 
• Timely follow through on commitments. Promote best practices within the group and execute assigned duties and enhance control over procedures.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and have the flexibility to support global time zones as required.
• Demonstrated management skills and commitment to delivering results within aggressive timelines.

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Who We Are:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development
If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.
 

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process 
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

Sans Objet