Job Title: Equity Derivatives Trader, EMEA, Senior Associate
Job Code: 7433
Country: GB
City: London
Skill Category: Global Markets
Company overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership.
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Job title: Equity Derivatives Trader, EMEA
Corporate Title: Senior Associate
Department: Global Markets Equities
Location: London
Global Markets Equities
We offer global cash equity execution with a dominant presence on multiple stock exchanges coupled with highly regarded market insights, corporate access and equity financing services. We also provide competitive pricing in single stock and index options, ETFs and swaps, offering you a full suite of synthetic financing solutions including OTC and listed products.
Role description
The position is a trading role within the EMEA Equities team in Global Markets. The role involves pricing and risk managing products across financing, derivatives and other solutions for corporate and strategic clients.
The successful candidate will be a core subject matter expert and a critical pillar in driving systematic risk trading strategies and implementing change across the Equities infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Pricing, execution, hedging and ongoing position management of full suite of corporate equity derivative transactions, both linear and non-linear.
- Work with the origination team to develop new trade ideas and transaction structures.
- Oversee operational elements of the book liaising closely with middle and back office to resolve any issues and implement process and platform enhancements.
- Understand and improve existing pricing infrastructure working closely with the Quants and technology teams.
- Liaise closely with support functions (Finance/Risk) on position reporting and analysis.
- Work in close partnership with key control functions including Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit, Finance in order to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure.
- Build a culture of responsible finance, good governance and supervision, expense discipline and ethics.
- Appropriately assess risk/reward of transactions when making business decisions, demonstrating proper consideration for the firm’s reputation.
- Adhere to all policies and procedures as defined by your role which will be communicated to you.
- Obtain and maintain all registrations/licenses which are required for your role, within the appropriate timeframe.
Required Qualifications
- Experience within corporate equity derivatives, exotic derivatives trading, and/or equity derivatives structuring.
- Experience of pricing/execution/risk-management of structured equity financing (Equity margin loan/Derivative financing).
- A strong understanding of market dynamics and the ability to discuss and present information on derivative markets to investment teams.
- Confident with technology and the ability to learn how to use multiple platforms and applications.
- Team player with effective communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with multiple partners and stakeholders.
- Strong work ethic with high level of self-motivation and eagerness to innovate and evolve the trading team.
- Experience with programming will be beneficial.
- Required licensing and registrations as applicable.
Nomura competencies
Culture & Conduct
- Contributes to desired culture.
- Aware of different values/styles.
- Maintains own and holds others to high standards of behavior.
- Seeks to develop.
- Aware of impact of own strengths/weaknesses.
- Learns from experience.
Client-Centricity & Business Acumen
- Demonstrates understanding of current market.
- Anticipates client needs.
- Pays attention to detail, synthesizes accurately.
- Sees problems, recommends solutions.
Strategy & Innovation
- Articulates own contributions to divisional and firm-wide strategy.
- Embraces and balances new/differing ways of thinking/working.
- Makes decisions appropriate to their role, knows when and how to escalate.
- Knows when/how to compromise.
- Responds positively to changing needs and circumstances.
- Is able to change direction quickly.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Proactively participates in own and others' performance year.
- Assists in recruiting and onboarding new team members.
- Gives credit to others for positive contributions.
- Builds collaborative and productive working relationships.
- Provides on-the-job training to colleagues.
- Provides and listens to constructive, timely and specific feedback to resolve conflict.
Communication & Connectivity
- Adjusts communication style to suit topic/audience.
- Balances listening/talking.
- Communicates ideas and issues clearly and with consideration.
- Questions to understand others’ views.
- Is a proven and credible resource.
- Builds internal network.
- Willingly works with others to share information.
Execution & Delivery
- Maintains positive commitment to results.
- Takes on challenging assignments.
- Executes priority actions on-time.
- Keeps stakeholders updated, manages expectations.
- Persists when confronted with resistance.
- Seeks, listens to and accepts feedback.
Diversity Statement
Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.
Right to Work
Please contact us if you are visiting our offices and require any form of personal assistance or physical adaptations to be provided for your appointment. A member of staff will be happy to help.
Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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