Junior Treasury Dealer, Trading in City of Westminster

Amazon seeks a Junior Treasury Dealer to join the Treasury Strategy and Markets Team, which oversees global foreign exchange trading, commodities, and equities execution. This role provides an opportunity to work alongside experienced traders at the centre of Amazon's trading operations, where you will assist in the execution and management of multi-asset class trading strategies across FX, equities, and commodities markets.

As a supporting member of the team, you will help leverage trading platforms and analytics to support efficient execution by senior dealers while learning best-in-class trading practices. The successful candidate should be eager to learn, comfortable with ambiguity, and capable of balancing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced market environment. You will support the development of relationships with key banking counterparties and work cross-functionally across Amazon's diverse business lines to help meet the company's global trading needs. This position requires a motivated individual who will assist in continuously improving Treasury processes while maintaining a rigorous control environment and compliance with various Amazon policies.

• Execution Support: Assist senior traders in executing foreign exchange, equity, and commodity trades to support Amazon's global business operations.
• Market Monitoring: Support real-time monitoring of market conditions, liquidity, and pricing across multiple venues and counterparties to help ensure optimal execution.
• Reporting & Analytics: Create, maintain, and distribute detailed reports that track the performance of execution metrics, including fill rates, rejection rates, and price improvements against internal KPIs.
• Transaction Cost Analysis: Assist in conducting regular Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) to help optimize trading performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Trading Dashboard Maintenance: Help design and maintain trading dashboards that provide real-time visibility into execution performance, market conditions, and liquidity metrics.
• Counterparty Coordination: Support the management of relationships with key liquidity providers, including helping to compile data for periodic counterparty performance reviews.
• Settlement & Operations: Monitor trade settlement processes and assist in resolving any trading-related issues with counterparties in a timely manner.
• Process Documentation: Develop and maintain standard operating procedures for trading activities across all asset classes, ensuring documentation remains current and accurate.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with internal groups including Global Payments, Finance Operations, and Technology teams on trading infrastructure improvements and day-to-day operational needs.
• Technology & Automation Support: Collaborate with technology teams to help enhance trading platforms, support API connectivity testing, and assist in automating execution processes.
• Research: Stay current with market developments, regulatory changes, and new trading technologies that could impact execution strategies, and summarise findings for the broader team.
• Compliance Support: Assist in regular reviews of execution policies and procedures to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.
• Ad-Hoc Support: Provide general support to the FX trading organisation, including assisting with ad-hoc analysis, preparing materials for management presentations, and contributing to team projects as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in a quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance).
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English.
• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field.
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardise or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence.
• Can demonstrate strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Can demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Excel or equivalent spreadsheet tools.
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• Experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query).
• Experience with multi-lateral foreign exchange netting, in-house banking solutions, and pay-on/receive-on-behalf-of cash management solutions as well as experience with Corporate Treasury FX trading platforms such as 360T, and Bloomberg FXGO.

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