Associate, Securitised Products Trading

Summary

Our Markets Traders identify, analyse and execute opportunities in the market, supporting the needs of our clients in a professional and fully compliant way.  Our Markets business aims to become the leading emerging markets fixed income, financing, and securities service franchise, and a leader in sustainable finance, advisory, trading and asset servicing. 

The business will achieve this by expanding product capabilities, building on footprint market strength, developing our talent and using technology to transform our ways of working. We’re looking for highly capable individuals to join us and maintain the highest levels of integrity and professionalism, in line with our valued behaviours. 

Key Responsibilities

• Sustainably grow franchise revenue by supporting our clients, acting as a market-maker and effectively manage our risk exposures. 
• Manage and execute trading strategies and ensure long term economic profit goals are achieved.
• Develop market making strategies in target markets.
• Ensure trading activities are compliant to standards based on risk-weighted asset and return on equity targets management.
• Ensure budget targets are cascaded to teams with product targets, and proactively performance manage targets through to delivery. 
• Collaborate with global Relationship Managers, Capital Structuring and Distribution Group and Financial Market Sales to identify clients needing solutions that the public market cannot provide.
• Identify, analyse and drive profitable trading opportunities to client requirements and goals, for example – supporting the growing demand for sustainable finance.
• Navigate new trading markets and capitalise on new sustainable finance opportunities, for example - Carbon Credit Trading. 
• Leverage emerging technologies to digitise trading, including Cognitive Algorithmic Trading platform to monitor market risks, real-time inventory, pricing negotiation and business insights

Skills and Experience

• Financial mathematics and financial products.
• Risk management, financial and credit analysis.
• Experience adapting to client behaviors and preferences.
• Economic analysis and modelling.
• Emerging technology.