Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for performing financial and statistical analyses, conducting research, and participating in specific client and deal teams. Key responsibilities include developing client presentations and structuring and execution activities. Job expectations may include rotating through any of the multiple client management, credit management, and capital raising product areas across Global Corporate and Investment Banking in a sales function.

Desk:  Global Short End Trading, Americas Short End Trading

Looking to add an Associate level trader to help support and grow the U.S. Structured Finance Trading strategy

            

Primary function of this trading seat is to grow franchise, to be a solution provider, risk assessor, and product developer in a client and sales facing capacity with a broad understanding of various fixed income asset classes on a low flow, high degree of complexity business.  Short End Trading is a global business with regular frequent interactions with teammates across the globe (UK, France, Hong Kong & Singapore).

            

Heavy internal interactions expected with technology, market risk, counterparty risk, accounting policy, enterprise capital, legal, treasury and other fixed income lines of businesses.  External interactions focused on key institutional clients in the bank, hedge fund, private equity, insurance and asset-manager spaces.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts financial analyses and prepares support documentation for client presentations
• Researches products and services in the market to gain insight into marketing and sales trends
• Supports the trading strategy to build effective client relationships and provide customized products and services to clients
• Participates in due diligence sessions, while communicating and interacting with deal team members
• Assists with sales, trading, and hedging activities and documents key findings for the team
• Development of infrastructure to support new trading products and asset classes for the desk
• Daily aggregation and reconciliation of global P&L
• Assisting with internal approvals for new transactions
• Developing expertise with desk’s trading systems to facilitate a more scalable business
• Hedging of credit, interest rate, FX, funding and counterparty risks inherent in the business
• Contributing to strategy development and transaction execution work

Skills:

• Trading
• Trading Strategy
• Trading and Investment Analysis
• Written Communications
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Customer and Client Focus
• Fiscal Responsibility
• Research Analysis
• Experience in portfolio and counterparty risk analysis
• Previous experience in interacting with front office trading businesses
• Demonstrated interest in finance and front office role / risk taking

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - ONE BRYANT PARK - BANK OF AMERICA TOWER (NY1100)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$110,000.00 - $175,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.