Director / Head Credit Trading
Leading investment bank is looking to hire an experienced credit trader to help strengthen their European franchise. This is a chance to join a very exciting bank with a strong team in place. Ideally candidates will be coming from a GBP market making position having managed and taken high levels of risk within recent times. The candidate may also have experience managing a small team within the Fixed Income trading space.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with the Heads of Fixed Income Trading
- Contribute to the European strategy, development, and growth of the Credit business
- Market making with a focus on GBP Corporate Credit bonds
- Manage people, build/ develop the business, work closely with other teams ie syndication / origination / distribution
- Manage own risk
- Manage and develop desk tools and databases
Skills / Attributes required:
- MINIMUM 5 years market making experience in the GBP Corporate Credit space ( also may consider particular strong candidates with a trading / syndication background if they have good GBP Corporate Credit product experience )
- Very good PNL track record
- Experienced using standard pricing tools: Bloomberg etc
- Ability or track record of managing and building a small team
- Preference to those with experience on a GBP desk
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