Fixed Income Repo and Finance Trader (12 month maternity cover)

Your Work Environment
Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player and a market leader, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Your Role
The role is a temporary Trader for our Repo desk in London for Global Securities Finance (GSF). You will join an existing team of traders locally, covering maternity leave.

You will help drive the strategy and vision of the desk, working closely with global financial markets sales. 

Your key responsibilities

• Trade the DM/EM Repo as well as securities lending book.

• Trade the daily flow, including hedging strategies/ STIR, funding and collateral management.

• Align with the credit risk, market risk, balance sheet and regulatory requirements, in London.

• Collaborate with the Financial Markets global sales teams.

• Work closely with key internal stakeholders to help develop electronic platform trading.

• Co-ordinate and liaise with existing client franchise.

Execute key analyses

• Performs continuing risk analyses

• Analyses potential trading opportunities and structures across various currencies

• Evaluates financial products

• Examines external trends and market information

• Evaluates regulatory impact and planning for changes.

Who we are looking for?
A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As a Repo Trader for Global Securities Finance you will need:

• Master’s degree or equivalent through experience.

• To be fluent in English

• Quantitively minded

• Knowledge of pricing methods / risk analysis desired

• Knowledge of all Repo trading products is preferred

• Demonstrate alertness and ability to respond quickly to changing market conditions and volatility.

We offer you

• a dynamic international working environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavours (Dealing room based in Amsterdam)

• a progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention

• a competitive daily rate (inside IR35)