CITIC CLSA
1 week ago
Associate Equity Derivatives Trader - CITIC CLSA
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Company information
- Company
- CITIC CLSA
- Location
- Singapore Singapore
- Posted
- 1 week ago
Job description
Key Areas of Responsibilities
- Support the Delta One trading business, including pricing, execution, hedging and ongoing risk management for the business.
- Monitor and actively manage equity, futures, FX, funding and basis risks arising from the trading book, while operating within applicable risk, regulatory and compliance frameworks.
- Help develop and manage the desk's South Asian inventory optimization book, including identifying opportunities to improve the utilization, financing and deployment of equity inventory across markets.
- Analyze inventory, financing costs, borrow availability, funding, dividends, corporate actions, futures basis and other relevant market factors to identify relative-value and optimization opportunities.
- Work with senior traders to identify opportunities to improve the economics of the client franchise, including the interaction between client flows, inventory, hedging, financing and balance-sheet utilization.
- Take ownership of day-to-day trading issues and proactively identify opportunities for process, risk and commercial improvements.
- Develop analytical frameworks and tools to support risk management, inventory optimization, pricing and trading decisions, using Python and other appropriate technologies.
- Partner closely with Quant and Technology teams to enhance trading infrastructure, automate workflows and improve the scalability and control of the trading platform.
- Support the development and launch of new products, markets and trading capabilities, working closely with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Operations and Technology.
- Work with Middle Office, Operations and Settlement teams to ensure accurate booking, reconciliation and lifecycle management, while proactively resolving issues affecting the trading business.
- Contribute trade ideas, quantitative analysis and market observations relevant to the desk's client, inventory and risk-management activities.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in Delta One trading, equity financing, inventory optimization, prime brokerage trading or a closely related role, preferably at an established investment bank, broker-dealer or trading platform.
- Demonstrable experience in inventory management/optimization, financing, Delta One risk management or related relative-value trading strategies. Prior South Asia market experience would be highly desirable.
- Good understanding of Asian equity markets and equity products.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to translate analysis into practical trading decisions and commercial opportunities.
- Experience using AI and automation to improve trading workflows is an advantage.
- High degree of initiative and intellectual curiosity. The successful candidate should be comfortable working through unfamiliar problems independently, proposing solutions and taking ownership of their implementation.
- Ability to remain disciplined and make sound decisions in a fast-moving trading environment.
- Strong communication skills and an ability to work effectively with trading, sales and internal control and infrastructure functions across different locations.
- Good command of Chinese language would be helpful but is not essential, particularly for communication with internal stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative, finance, economics, engineering or related discipline.
- Singaporeans and Singapore Permanent Residents are preferred
Required skills
- sales
- initiative
- technology
- execution
- compliance
- inventory management
- communication skills
- operations
- analytical skills
- finance
- ai
- python
- automation
- risk management
- process improvement
- tools
- bachelor's degree
- equity
- legal
- booking
- compliance frameworks
- pricing
- regulatory frameworks
- fx
- scalability
- risk
- quantitative skills
- reconciliation
- funding
- internal control
- quantitative analysis
- lifecycle management
- risk frameworks
- financing
- new products
- middle office
- hedging
- quantitative discipline
- singaporeans
- futures
- chinese language
- trading platform
- trading infrastructure
- new markets
- engineering discipline
- technology teams
- corporate actions
- intellectual curiosity
- dividends
- broker-dealer
- analytical frameworks
- finance discipline
- investment bank
- trading environment
- singapore permanent residents
- equity financing
- market observations
- trade ideas
- financing costs
- quant teams
- automate workflows
- asian equity markets
- trading book
- delta one trading
- basis risks
- south asian inventory optimization
- borrow availability
- relative-value trading
- client franchise
- client flows
- balance-sheet utilization
- commercial improvement
- new trading capabilities
- settlement teams
- prime brokerage trading
- equity products
- infrastructure functions
- economics discipline
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