A leading Financial Institution is looking to add to their Trading capabilities and is seeking to hire an mid-level Securities Finance Trader in Zurich. The role offers a huge opportunity for an ambitious person with exciting ideas who looking grow within a successful team and manage a client flow trading book.
Your tasks & responsibilities
- Trading Equity and Fixed Income securities finance and repo as well as Collateral upgrade/down grade trades, TRS and single stock futures
- Funding and financing longs to raise liquidity
- Building and managing strong relationships and network with securities finance counterparts globally
- Daily book management and refinancing as well as managing daily risk exposures and credit risk
- Working with projects teams on regulatory implementation such as SFTR and platform development
- Building strong working relationships with internal stakeholders such as operations teams in order to improve desk operational effectiveness
- Analyse financial statements such as the daily PnL, escalate and review breaks as well as reporting
Requirements
- At least 3+ years of relevant work experience is required, preferably in Securities Lending or Capital Markets
- Strong analytical skills and at the same time demonstrating clear and structured thought processes
- Creative thinker and comfortable taking initiative in pursuing new trading opportunities
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment, and to identify revenue/process improvement opportunities and provide solutions
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written in English, further languages such as French and German are an advantage
If you are interested in the Securities Finance Trader role, apply online today or email:
