EM Sales Trader

Citi is seeking an experienced industry candidate to work as part of the Equities Sales Trading team, to specifically cover the UK Long Only client base for both Developed European and Emerging markets.

By joining Citi’s Cash Equity business, you will be part of one of the world’s largest cash equity franchises where you will be responsible for finding and providing liquidity for UK institutional clients. This role involves idea generation, cross product content delivery and the acquisition and provision of market intelligence.

This is a senior level hire, with the primary objective to generate commission, source liquidity and be a conduit for the customer base into the equity market. This is a unique opportunity to join a very successful team in a stable and successful business, working with other cross regional teams including Prime, Generalist/Specialist sales, Trading, Delta1, Equity Capital Markets and Derivatives.

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

• As a key member of the desk, you will market Citigroup’s execution capabilities, contribute to team strategy, and deliver a high level of customer service across existing relationships as well as developing new relationships and leveraging these across other desks and businesses.
• You will be expected to develop high-profile institutional accounts from acquisition to ownership and offer certain clients full sales trading plus trading coverage.
• Own the internal cross-border relationships and help drive our international offering.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm’s reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

What we will need from you:

• Experience of working in a Sales, Sales Trading role with excellent product knowledge is essential, and candidates who do not have this will not be considered.
• An in-depth knowledge of equity analysis, market dynamics and fundamentals as well as financial institutions, and the associated asset classes and products.
• You will be expected to have a strong technical understanding of equity trading, trading strategies, the marketplace and market issues.
• Proven track record of successfully securing new business as well as monetising existing clients in the UK Long Only clients.
• Excellent communication skills and clear demonstration of collaborating with and leveraging broader teams across your organisation.
• Proven negotiation and persuasion skills and fluency in additional languages preferred.
• You will be a self-starter, who can prioritise, and time manage effectively in an environment that requires the ability to react quickly to events and multitask, but also ensure attention to detail is not compromised.
• You should be educated to degree level and display a strong academic background in a finance or mathematical related degree.

This is a role that will position you in front of high-profile external clients and continue to develop your technical product understanding, whilst at the same time providing internal visibility across many of the Citi markets desks, through day-to-day interactions as you look to develop a career within Citi.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.

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.

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 Sales

Job Family: Investor Sales

Time Type: Full time

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