Position Description
APAC Equities Facilitation Trader with responsibility for use of firm’s capital to complement the equity execution offering across the region. Interact directly with the regional Sales Trading team to generate revenue through the use of the company’s facilitation trading book.
Key Areas of Responsibilities
- Working with Sales Traders to provide a targeted use of capital to key accounts
- To provide support and origination of revenue
- Centralised point on the floor for all flow related risk handling activities
- Appropriate assessment of trade risk versus financial upside to the firm, taking into account client tiering and expectations
- Fulfil duty as an IPO stabilization agent
- Manage risk within given limits in a highly regulated landscape
- Building risk handling capabilities and facilitation infrastructure
- Ability to provide ETF pricing to clients
- Working closely with Compliance, Operations, Risk, Treasury, Finance and Technology
- Undertake commercially viable prepositioning activities with associated hedging functions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance or Economics
- Minimum 10 years of experience in trading related role with majority of time spent as a facilitation trader
- SFC Licensed
- Knowledge of Bloomberg and other front office trading systems
- Experience in regional markets
- Advanced analytical and numerical competency
- Effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships
- Strong IT skills, minimum excel, VBA and python programming
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Fluent in spoken and written English and Mandarin
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or above in Finance or Economics
- Minimum 10 years of experience in trading related role with majority of time spent as a facilitation trader
- SFC Licensed
- Knowledge of Bloomberg and other front office trading systems
- Experience in regional markets
- Advanced analytical and numerical competency
- Effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships
- Strong IT skills, minimum Excel, VBA and Python programming
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Fluent in spoken and written English and Mandarin
CLSA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CLSA and has not been reviewed or approved by CLSA.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Base pay for junior bankers was increased significantly in 2021 to stay competitive in a hot market. This indicates willingness to adjust compensation when talent risks rise.
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Healthcare Strength — Permanent staff are automatically enrolled in healthcare aligned to local markets, with added travel health and security support via International SOS. This points to solid core medical coverage with global-travel assistance.
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Retirement Support — Permanent staff are automatically enrolled in pension plans aligned to local markets. A group retirement plan is administered regionally, signaling formalized retirement benefits infrastructure.
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What We Do
CITIC CLSA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Securities and its overseas business platform. Established in Hong Kong in 1986, CITIC CLSA is Asia’s leading capital markets and investment group, committed to driving the growth strategies of global institutional investors, corporations, governments and high-net-worth individuals. CITIC CLSA’s award-winning research, extensive Asia network, direct links to China and highly experienced financial professionals set CITIC CLSA apart from global investment banks and regional players. Over three decades, CITIC CLSA has built an extensive Asia network with deep local knowledge and connections. Globally, we operate from 13 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. For further information, please visit clsa.com
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