Description of the Business Line or Department

We are seeking a Trainee to join our Global Markets Engineering team. The team drives engineering activities across market activities covering all financial products. Our expertise is highly successful and globally recognized.

Our five main centres of expertise ensure that we remain at the forefront of innovation:

• Our Central Advisory Group properly understands financial institutions’ practices and concerns
• Our Pricing & Development Group sits within each business line and is centrally managed to create innovative solutions and investment strategies
• Our Flow Strategy & Solutions Group influences the market and generates efficient trade ideas
• Our Central Cross Structuring Group builds the most efficient issuance and execution framework for our clients
• Our Central Product Marketing team explains and broadcasts product expertise

The Flow Strategy and Solutions team is a global team of financial engineers focused on the generation of differentiated trade ideas, unique implementations and hedging solutions across asset classes for hedge funds, global macros, asset managers and institutions.

Summary of the key purposes of the role

Producing Content – working in conjunction with Trading, Pricing, Quantitative Investment Strategies and Sales to push trade ideas that may appear attractive from both a macro and/or volatility arbitrage standpoint.

Marketing – client interactions via meetings, roadshows and conferences, in collaboration with Sales, Trading, and Research teams.

Summary of responsibilities

Product responsibilities:

• Producing, updating and maintaining screeners which provide information on various market parameters used for trade idea generation
• Providing clear macroeconomic rationale to assist with trade idea generation
• Developing innovative and value-added approaches for collecting and analysing data
• Building and maintaining financial models and scripts, which are used for forecastsing, back testing and optimisation of trade ideas
• Assisting with client requests
• Reviewing data provided by Research teams

Marketing responsibilities:

• Communicating the team’s published ideas to internal and external clients, through calls, meetings, conferences and the production of marketing material
• Prepare and publish documents based on research and analysis work
• Planning, hosting and taking minutes at meetings with internal stakeholders within the Equity Research and Sales divisions
• Ensuring that all available feedback is captured