Junior Portfolio Manager
This is a unique role and presents an exciting opportunity for career progression.
Position Responsibilities
- Assisting the PM with execution of trades, strategies, trade expression, and financing
- Front Office support, booking trades, checking trades, liaising with external counterparties as well as internal departments, particularly Product Control and Risk.
- Monitor the portfolio, risk, limits, and strategies
- Keep PM abreast of market information
- Ability to support / take instruction from the Portfolio Management Team
- Basic level of proficiency with technology, understanding of financial markets, and knowledge of instruments traded
- Ideally the ability to program in Visual Basic for Excel, C++
- A focus on continual improvement, both in terms of personal development and as regards improving the processes of the group
- Continuously builds and develops strong working relationships with colleagues and external parties
Candidate Specification
- The candidate will have at a minimum a strong undergraduate degree, and will also possess or be able to demonstrate the ability to acquire - the following qualities:-
- Must have two to three years’ experience (either trading or sales) with strong knowledge of derivative products (both OTC and listed)
- Outstanding intellectual ability coupled with an intuitive understanding of basic macroeconomics and probability
- A high degree of diligence and attention to detail when evaluating, entering, and managing trades and in all other responsibilities
- Discernment, imagination and a sense of perspective when thinking about developments in economics, and financial markets
- A tentative rather than a fixed attitude towards knowledge whilst at the same time having confidence in an opinion where it is justified.
- A high degree of intellectual curiosity, independence of thought, and general interest in world affairs, financial markets, and economics. It is more important to have a firm command of a particular area than a general veneer without depth.
- A high ethical standard and orientation towards meeting regulatory and corporate rules and regulations
- Authorised to work in the UK
Please note that if you do not provide a covering letter with your CV then your application will not be considered.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday 13th December 2013
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