Equity Funding Trader

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Trader, Equity Funding Desk – Front Office Markets

Citi\’s Markets business stands as a global leader, providing world-class solutions and unparalleled access across nearly 80 countries. Our client‑facing, revenue‑generating division offers extensive trading and execution capabilities spanning diverse asset classes such as Commodities, Equities, Rates, and Spread Products, alongside our market‑leading FX franchise. As a critical engine within the firm, Citi Markets empowers corporations, institutional investors, and governments with innovative financial products and services, driving global commerce and investment.

This role provides an exceptional opportunity for a junior trader to join Citi\’s Equity Funding desk. You will analyze constraining factors, including liquidity, tenor management, regulatory metrics, and inventory optimization, to execute the most cost‑efficient structures. Your contribution will directly support the growth of Citi\’s wider Prime, Delta One, and Equities businesses. By trading a diverse range of products – Equity swaps, repos, stock loan, FX swaps, and Interest Rate swaps – you will develop autonomy in decision‑making and book management under the guidance of experienced desk leadership. You will also lead and support critical projects aimed at enhancing existing processes, controls, technology, reporting, product offerings, and liquidity models.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze large volumes of reporting data to make informed decisions regarding optimal trade types, structures, tenors, and sizes.
• Execute new trades and manage lifecycle events across the desk\’s range of products (Equity swaps, repos, stock loan, FX swaps, and Interest Rate swaps).
• Take responsibility for book management, risk monitoring, P&L reporting, and execute appropriate hedges to mitigate FX, cross‑currency, and interest rate exposures.
• Lead and support projects and in‑depth analysis on key metrics to understand theory, propose logic changes, inform trading decisions, and ensure accurate pricing.
• Collaborate with technology and quant partners to develop systematic improvements, contributing to specifications, maintaining ongoing contact, and participating in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Liaise with treasury to coordinate the usage of firm resources and manage liquidity, and engage with sales to develop the franchise by anticipating client and internal demand.
• Appropriately assess risk in all business decisions, demonstrating consideration for the firm\’s reputation and safeguarding Citi, its clients, and assets by complying with laws, exercising ethical judgment, and managing control issues transparently.

Required Qualifications

• Experience working for a large banking institution, either in a trading role or a treasury function with familiarity in liquidity management.
• Good understanding of how Prime and Delta One businesses operate, including the products they trade, embedded risks, and operational constraints.
• Demonstrated experience working with large datasets to produce concise and actionable conclusions.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication, along with effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience with some of the following: Python, VBA, Bloomberg, and Excel.

What We Offer

By joining Citi London, you will enjoy a competitive base salary, a hybrid working model (up to two days working at home per week), and a range of benefits:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Discretionary 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

We are committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.

Other job‑related duties may be assigned as required.

This role is a Certified Role subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime. Applicants will be assessed for fitness and propriety through interviews, self‑disclosures, criminal record checks, reference checks, credit checks, and other background screening.

Citizen of equal opportunity, EEO, and U holder employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.

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