Rates Trading Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialist

Job Title: Rates Trading Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialist 

Location: London

Corporate Title: Analyst/Associate

The Corporate Derivatives Desk (CDD) is a central product unit within Global Rates Strategy, responsible for optimising capital and overall strategy for the corporate franchise.

You will play a crucial supporting role in ensuring efficient trade screening, robust record-keeping, and insightful profitability and Risk-Weighted Assets (RWA) management, contributing to the CDD's objectives of enhancing revenues sustainably with key focus on client strategy and capital optimisation.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Assist in screening new transactions to ensure alignment with client strategy and defined return hurdles and capital efficiency targets
• Support the CDD in taking into account future regulation, day-1 policy, and Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) charges during the pricing process
• Collaborate with Sales and Structuring teams on pricing requests, ensuring all relevant information is captured and analyse the transaction profitability and overall returns at both client and portfolio levels
• Develop Front Office use cases where AI can improve maintain accurate and comprehensive records of all corporate derivatives transactions
• Assist in tracking and documenting decisions related to client documentation, and capital deployment
• Develop Front Office use cases where AI can improve trading, risk management and franchise activities.

Your skills and experience

• Educated to degree level (preferably in Finance, Economics, Quantitative Methods or a related discipline) or equivalent qualification and/or work experience
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with attention to detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with various internal stakeholders
• Understanding of financial markets, derivatives products
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks effectively
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks impacting financial products is a plus

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities e.g. Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.