Options or Index Trader recruitment
Job Details: Options or Index Trader
Sector: Financial Services
Department: Trading
Specialisation: Options or Index Trading/Spread Bets/CFDs
Reporting to: TBC
Basic Salary: Competitive
Bonus Structure: Discretionary / Competitive
Benefits: Comprehensive
Location: London, City
Our Reference: 918893
Key Responsibilities
You will responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring prices are correct
- Managing oversize and agency trades for clients
- Monitoring the risk arising from client positions and hedging when necessary
- This is not a proprietary trading role
Requirements
Educational / Experience:
- Experience trading CFDs, Spread Bets, Margined FX or OTC derivatives
- Either Index, commodity FX trading or option trading
- Financial market knowledge
- Degree in a numerate discipline
- Excel Spreadsheets
Personal Specification and Competencies:
- Technical Skill and Competence
- Demonstrates detailed knowledge and expertise in relation to the job; absorbs new job specific information and keeps up to date in specialist area.
- Judgement Analysis:
- Has ability to assess information, review options, make appropriate decision, and understand consequences.
- Initiative:
- Pro-active and self-starting; takes opportunities and acts on them; originates action and actively influences events.
- Information Gathering:
- Seeks all possible relevant information for problem solving and decision making; consults widely, probes the facts, analyses issues from different perspectives.
- Managing Risk:
- Ensures the company is not exposed to unnecessary risk from a regulatory, other legal, monetary, business policy or PR standpoint.
May 15, 2010
• Tags: Commodities careers in the UK, Options or Index Trader recruitment • Posted in: Financial