Junior Risk Trader, Forex.
- Recruiter
- Sovereign Recruitment Solutions Ltd
- Location
- London
- Salary
- 35000.00 - 45000.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 27 May 2017
- Closes
- 03 Jun 2017
- Sectors
- Banking & Financial Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Junior Risk Trader
My client is a global Forex / CFD brokerage, looking to recruit a Junior Risk Trader for their London City office.
Position
- Managing and monitoring the firms market risk within the trading team. Primary FX focus but also indices, commodities and precious metals
- Daily operational aspects such as monitoring and managing credit limits with prime brokers, daily swaps, futures rolls
- Checking and processing of electronic client transactions in a fair and timely manner
- Dealing with client telephone requests and queries
- Regularly check price feed and report any issues immediately to head of desk
- Provide back up to customer support
- Analyse client accounts for unusual trading patterns and report all findings to head of trading
- Continually monitor and predict market news and observe market movements
- Be aware of industry trends and participants
- Assist in the settlement and rolling of all prime brokerage open positions
- Build knowledge base with daily analysis of general and financial events
- Assist compliance with trade queries and complaints, advising of any suspicious trends / money laundering activities on clients' accounts in accordance with money laundering rules.
- Consistently monitor client positions and company exposure across all products using all risk management tools available
- Making hedging decisions and risk management purposes and executing them via selected trading GUIs
- Opportunity to assist with development of high and mid frequency automated hedging and trading strategies
- Work closely with all departments
Candidate
- Minimum 1 years' experience with an established FX, CFDs, Commodities Broker/ Bank / Market Maker
- Profitable proprietary trading experience, systematic or discretionary on a short-term basis
- Good understanding of trading technology, familiar with admin functions of Currenex, Integral and Meta Trader highly desirable
- Ability to run data base queries and some experience in client performance analysis is a plus
- Highly analytical with attention to detail, fast thinker who has a track record of stepping up and dealing with pressure in a fast-paced environment
Hours
- 3 days New York hours.
- 2 days straight days.
My client is a global Forex / CFD brokerage, looking to recruit a Junior Risk Trader for their London City office.
Position
- Managing and monitoring the firms market risk within the trading team. Primary FX focus but also indices, commodities and precious metals
- Daily operational aspects such as monitoring and managing credit limits with prime brokers, daily swaps, futures rolls
- Checking and processing of electronic client transactions in a fair and timely manner
- Dealing with client telephone requests and queries
- Regularly check price feed and report any issues immediately to head of desk
- Provide back up to customer support
- Analyse client accounts for unusual trading patterns and report all findings to head of trading
- Continually monitor and predict market news and observe market movements
- Be aware of industry trends and participants
- Assist in the settlement and rolling of all prime brokerage open positions
- Build knowledge base with daily analysis of general and financial events
- Assist compliance with trade queries and complaints, advising of any suspicious trends / money laundering activities on clients' accounts in accordance with money laundering rules.
- Consistently monitor client positions and company exposure across all products using all risk management tools available
- Making hedging decisions and risk management purposes and executing them via selected trading GUIs
- Opportunity to assist with development of high and mid frequency automated hedging and trading strategies
- Work closely with all departments
Candidate
- Minimum 1 years' experience with an established FX, CFDs, Commodities Broker/ Bank / Market Maker
- Profitable proprietary trading experience, systematic or discretionary on a short-term basis
- Good understanding of trading technology, familiar with admin functions of Currenex, Integral and Meta Trader highly desirable
- Ability to run data base queries and some experience in client performance analysis is a plus
- Highly analytical with attention to detail, fast thinker who has a track record of stepping up and dealing with pressure in a fast-paced environment
Hours
- 3 days New York hours.
- 2 days straight days.