Equity Central Risk Trader - Director
Citi · Singapore · 2y ago
Central Risk Trader is a senior level position responsible for overseeing a trading book and managing book risk, in coordination with the Equities Trading team. The overall objective of this role is to ensure book trades deliver on budgeted revenues, and to coordinate with key stakeholders to develop the trading franchise.
Responsibilities:
Oversee a trading book as a Senior trader and generate revenues and manage risk for the respective business
Build and maintain a franchise and connect with key clients
Coordinate with Sales, Research and other organizations across Markets and Securities Services and the broader business
Trade a book and deliver on budgeted revenues and manage book risk
Establish and maintain key relationships to deliver trades to the desk
Anticipate client demand in each respective product/market and facilitate large client trades
Coordinate with desk analysts as needed and with sales to develop the franchise and manage and mentor junior traders as needed
Leading strong governance and controls:
Work in close partnership with control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit, Finance in order to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure
Build a culture of responsible finance, good governance and supervision, expense discipline and ethics
Appropriately assess risk/reward of transactions when making business decisions; demonstrating proper consideration for the firm’s reputation.
Be familiar with and adhere to Citi’s Code of Conduct and the Plan of Supervision for Global Markets and Securities Services
Adhere to all policies and procedures as defined by your role which will be communicated to you
Obtain and maintain all registrations/licenses which are required for your role, within the appropriate timeframe
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Qualifications:
15+ years of experience in a related role
In-depth knowledge of respective products and clients
Proven history of successful trading book management
Required licensing and registrations as applicable
Advance analytical and numerical competency, particularly in fields of optimisation and machine learning
Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
Effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Ability to analyze and pitch situations and determine suitable counterparties
Knowledge of Bloomberg, booking systems, trading protocol, closing technicalities
Strong programming skills with experience using Python, KDB
Education:
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Master’s degree preferred
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Job Family Group:
Institutional Trading------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:
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Time Type:
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