Convertible Bonds Trader

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Citi Full time

Citi is looking to hire an experienced trader to run the convertible bonds trading desk. Your role as desk head will be to price and trade bonds for the Citi franchise and grow the desks revenue through profitable inventory management and market making, whilst looking to expand on Citi’s well-established franchise and distribution footprint.

By joining the trading desk for Equities, you will work closely with the primary issuance team on the general convertibles pipeline and will manage the overall book including special situations as well as the market making flow items.

As lead on the desk, you will be expected to grow the team and develop the junior talent on the desk as well as leading on projects to enhance the existing trading strategies by incorporating additional instruments and dynamic procedures.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced trader who is looking to take ownership of a desk and drive the business forward with the support of their peers across the markets business.

**What you will do will be varied day to day, but the key drivers for the role are**:

- Responsible for successfully managing the convertible bonds business at Citi, including growing the desk in terms of profitability and size.
- Effectively risk manage the trading book and oversee the risk of any traders you will manage in your capacity as desk head.
- Liaise with sales to develop the franchise, anticipating client demand in each respective product/market.
- Use existing (and help develop) trading dashboards to improve risk management and identify opportunities for revenue generation.
- Work in close partnership with control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit, Finance to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure.

**What we will need from you**:

- Will need to have trading experience in Convertible Bonds or closely related products, with a strong revenue generating track record.
- Experience of working closely with Sales, Research, and other organizations across Markets to provide market liquidity and help build the Citi franchise through the monetisation of client flows.
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication and effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- A strong understanding of Bloomberg, booking systems, trading protocol, closing technicalities.

**What we will provide you**:
This role will provide you with the opportunity to grow a product line within equities, leveraging a strong franchise and being responsible for running and growing a desk. You will work closely with many senior stakeholders across the markets platform in a bank that offers a diverse career path with global opportunities.

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model but also receive a competitive base salary, and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A discretional annual performance related bonus
- Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pension Plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
- Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

The 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:

- Honesty, integrity and reputation
- Financial soundness
- 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.
- **Job Family Group**:
Institutional Trading
- **Job Family**:
Trading
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationa

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