Typical Day in Role:
• Expected to be constructing and enhancing trading Python/VBA based trading analytics tool for Sales and Traders.
• Day to day interaction with the trade floor/traders.
• Continuously perform customer need analysis and understand business pain points. Identify the biggest problems to solve to build & own the roadmap.
• Effectively communicate and continuously engage & cultivate relationships with key stakeholders in front to back office and in technology, and partner with them to help drive the strategy of the department.
• Prioritizes, negotiate, and remove obstacles to ensure quality product launches.
• Seeking a resource to act as a product specialist who will be responsible for implementation of products for GBM trading focusing on listed cash equities that will address the need of our business globally and further the modernization mandate.
• You will help to grow, inspire, and lead the initiative to deliver a product for Sales and Trading business, and will need to manage the solution aspects within the portfolio and develop roadmap in collaboration of business and technology stakeholders and mitigates risk through collaboration of cross functions teams and effective operations of your respective area.
• You will be responsible for managing a deliverable and solutioning of products to resolve complex, multi-dimensional business problems.
• You will have the opportunity to work with talent individuals from cross functional teams and be responsible to build and delivery market leading solutions that are scalable, in high quality, with adequate and effective controls to meet obligations required for compliance and operational risk and add value to our business partners and customers.
• We are looking for a results-oriented, creative, highly motivated individual with a curious mindset, strong business product and leadership skills, deliver excellence passionate for challenges and want to contribute to the success of the Bank.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 5+ years’ experience working with Capital Markets with Sales and Trading focus
– Strong exposure to full trading lifecycle and ability to read and understand relevant datapoints
• 3+ years’ strong knowledge of capital markets cash equity or derivative trading and products with a focus on trade repository
• Strong recent project experience using Python (working on enhancement of existing code)
• Strong recent project experience using VBA hand-on
• Strong recent experience writing intermediate SQL queries
Soft Skills Required:
• Good understanding of operational flows with an engineering mindset to drive innovation amidst uncertainty.
• Strong problem solver with ability to influence and inspire a cross-functional team to reach ambitious goals.
• Experienced in building solutions in customer needs in your past roles and have successfully achieved it through a sound execution strategy.
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Influencing cross-functional team
Education & Certificates:
• Degree – STEM
• FRM certification (asset)