Sales Trading Assistant

We are seeking a motivated and detail‑oriented Sales Trading Assistant – Trade Booking & Onboarding to join our team. This role is ideal for candidates with experience in trade support, trading desk assistant, middle office, or onboarding functions within financial markets. You will work closely with traders in a fast‑paced environment, ensuring accurate trade booking, smooth client onboarding, and effective coordination across teams. Strong attention to detail, clear communication skills, the ability to thrive under pressure and seek to continuously improve are essential to succeed in this role. What You’ll Do Perform counterpart block trade bookings in a timely manner; mainly listed commodities options, with some CME rates/index/FX trades too. Work closely with commodities traders to understand Optiver’s trading workflows and ensure smooth post‑trade process with direct counterparts, including trade confirms and account settlement. Onboard new trading counterparties for both direct trading and broker relationships. This involves thorough client due diligence (KYC, AML) via collection and processing. Act as the primary point of contact during the onboarding phase, interfacing with internal sales, legal, compliance, and technology teams to ensure a smooth process, and interacting with external relationships to ensure they fulfill their side. Report and track progress of all onboarding plus trade reporting issues. Develop fluency with existing internal systems, exchange booking interfaces and procedures with an aim to proactively improve them. Identify opportunities to intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control. Work in tandem with back‑office engineering to ensure the health and stability of the processes and systems. Identify, solve and implement solutions to problems that block the expansion of our business. Involves working with trading, sales, corporate strategy and dev teams. Become an expert in Salesforce to help run data on the sales business and oversee the onboarding process that goes through it. Who You Are Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. Experience working in a trade support / trading or sales desk assistant / middle office / onboarding position, or within onboarding function, within financial markets. Experience working within commodities and/or OTC FX. Knowledge of OTC FXPB 4‑way agreements is desirable. Experience working with Options products. Ability to automate and improve processes by learning and applying technical tools such as Excel, VBA, Python, or SQL is an advantage. Comfortable working with traders directly in a fast paced environment. Strong attention to detail and ability to communicate. Competitive attitude and eagerness to constantly improve. Ability to proactively identify both technical and operational deficiencies. Ability to learn rules and regulations governing US futures exchanges and OTC FX trading across multiple jurisdictions. Understanding of legal and regulatory frameworks that govern onboarding and trading relationships. Who We Are At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. What You’ll Get Optiver’s London office is the location of our foreign exchange trading business and a growing hub for our commodity trading business. You will be part of a well‑established and high performing global firm whilst experiencing the excitement that comes from a growing operation. As our London operations grows there is a real opportunity to make a huge impact and take us and your career to a new level. We offer a supportive environment for you to perform at your best. A performance‑based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool. 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays. Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses. Private medical insurance, pension scheme, and ClassPass fitness membership. Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events. International transfer opportunities for global career growth. How To Apply Are you interested in furthering your career in our rapidly‑expanding office in the heart of London? Apply directly via the form below and please provide us with a CV in English. When we think there is a potential match, you will hear from us sooner than you expect. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to reach out to recruitment@optiver.uk. We do not require any assistance from third‑parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role. We cannot accept applications via email. When applying for a role with Optiver UK Limited, the recruitment process is run via our Optiver global recruitment team. The personal data you will submit as part of the recruitment process may be processed in the UK, US and the Netherlands. By continuing with your application you hereby consent to your personal data being processed in these locations. More information on how Optiver processes your personal data can be found in our Privacy Policy. Diversity Statement Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. #J-18808-Ljbffr