Junior Trader

About the job

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth

We are reinventing how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products that people love. Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success.

Over the past few years, Trading 212 has scaled to over 6 million clients globally, with total client assets under administration exceeding £30 billion.

As part of the Global Trading team, you will be responsible for performing various duties in adherence to the firm’s order execution policy and procedures during the European, US and Asia trading sessions.

Working hours - Shift Rotation (BG Time):

Early shift 1: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM

Early shift 2: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Early shift 3 (Mondays only): 07:30 AM - 04:30 PM

Late shift 1: 02:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Late shift 2: 04:00 PM - 01:00 AM

Late shift 3 (Fridays only): 07:30 PM - 03:00 AM

Night shift 1: 01:00 AM - 08:30 AM

Night shift 2 (Mondays only): 00:00 AM - 07:30 AM

What you'll do:

• Monitor internal and external order executions to ensure accurate and timely trade confirmations, adherence to regulatory obligations and delivery of good customer outcomes

• Review and analyse trading activity across all applicable asset classes. We have over 17,000 instruments, globally, including stocks, ETFs, futures and forex, all available as fractions

• Ensure accurate pricing of products and system performance

• Produce effective KPIs to review trading data

• Identify optimisations to system parameters to drive execution quality

• Work with internal stakeholders to develop business specifications for trading/risk tools and other feature enhancements

• Conduct ongoing Best Execution monitoring, ensuring compliance and produce monthly management information to present to internal committees

• Perform post trade surveillance tasks

Fundamental requirements:

• Demonstrable interest in financial markets and working knowledge of the online retail brokerage industry

• Comprehensive understanding of market practices and their regulatory requirements

• Minimum 2:1 degree within a relevant field, with scientific or mathematical background, e.g. Engineering, Mathematics, Economics

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Highly numerate and analytical

• Driven attitude to work creatively and independently

• Ability to work under pressure and be adaptable

• Must show high attention to detail

• Fluent in written and spoken English (Level C1)

Preferred requirements:

• 1 - 2 years’ experience in a trading role - preferably with a focus in equities

• Fundamental understanding of the CFD derivatives market

• Programming languages such as SQL or Python

What we offer:

• Challenges that will help you grow and realise your potential really fast

• Opportunity to make a big Impact - you will build innovative services used by millions of investors to build wealth

• Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues with a common goal

• An environment where nothing is set in stone

• Appreciation for your talent and ideas

• Generous remuneration package including annual bonuses

Are you ready to accelerate your career with us? We'd love to hear from you!

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