The role is for a Junior level trading position in Commodities working within our Agriculture derivatives franchise.
Responsibilities:
1. Assist with day-to-day trading book responsibilities, generate revenues and manage risk for the respective business.
2. Coordinate with Sales, Research, CM and other organizations across Markets and Securities Services and the broader business
3. Build tools to assist with our fundamental analysis framework
4. Establish and maintain key relationships to deliver trades to the desk
5. Anticipate client demand in each respective product/market
6. Coordinate with desk analysts as needed and with sales to develop the franchise.
7. Demonstrate strong governance and controls:
8. 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
9. Build a culture of responsible finance, good governance and supervision, expense discipline and ethics
10. Appropriately assess risk/reward of transactions when making business decisions; demonstrating proper consideration for the firm’s reputation.
11. Be familiar with and adhere to Citi’s Code of Conduct and the Plan of Supervision for Global Markets and Securities Services
12. Adhere to all policies and procedures as defined by your role which will be communicated to you
13. Obtain and maintain all registrations/licenses which are required for your role, within the appropriate timeframe
14. 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Qualifications:
15. 1-3 years of experience in a related role
16. Knowledge of respective products and clients
17. Required licensing and registrations as applicable
18. Advanced analytical and numerical competency
19. Advanced Python Skills required
20. Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
21. Effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
22. Ability to analyze and pitch situations and determine suitable counterparties
23. Knowledge of Bloomberg, booking systems, trading protocol, closing technicalities
Education:
24. Bachelor’s degree/University degree, Masters desirable.
Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016. Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role. Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:
25. Honesty, integrity and reputation
26. Financial soundness
27. Competence and capability
In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.
This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.
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Job Family Group:
Institutional Trading
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Job Family:
Trading
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Time Type:
Full time
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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