Loan Trader - Citi

By joining this desk, you will be responsible for trading the Par loan space. You will also be expected to lead and support on projects to enhance the existing trading strategies by incorporating additional instruments and dynamic procedures.

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

• Responsible for successfully trading Par loan, looking at relative value across loans and bonds to generate value and maximising market opportunities.
• Responsible for flashing the P&L, signing off the P&L the following day and making sure that all risks are properly captured in the system and clearly articulated.
• Establish and maintain key relationships to deliver trades to the desk, coordinating with desk analysts as needed and with sales to develop the franchise.
• Liaise with sales to develop the franchise, anticipating client demand in each respective product/market. Primary clients would be both Hedge Funds and Asset Managers.
• 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.
• 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:

• This is not an entry level role, so the successful candidate will need to have traded in the past or worked closely with a trading team so will have a proven history of successful trading book management.
• It is expected that the successful candidate will have experience of trading High Yield names, understand how these market names trade.
• 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.
• Python, VBA, Bloomberg & Excel would be advantageous but not required.

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. 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.

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi") invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities.