Join us as a Financials Credit Trader, Vice President
- We’re looking for an experienced Credit Trader to join our London-based Credit Trading team working alongside trading and strategy colleagues
- In this role, you’ll be responsible for market-making, risk management, and relative value trading across a range of financial institution credit products including senior and subordinated bank debt
- You’ll focus on optimising risk-adjusted returns, managing balance sheet utilisation and portfolio exposures, and providing liquidity while responding to market dynamics and client needs. You’ll also support the wider franchise of NatWest Markets with market insights and product expertise
What you’ll do
In this role, you’ll be trading financial bonds, credit default swap (CDS) indices and related credit instruments, managing client flow and delivering best execution while monitoring market liquidity and pricing. You’ll manage credit exposures within established risk limits, continuously assessing spread, duration, and credit quality risks whilst adjusting portfolio positions in response to market movements, macroeconomic developments and issuer fundamentals.
You’ll also
- Analyse credit markets to generate trading opportunities based on relative value, technical analysis and fundamental research, while staying informed of market-moving events
- Work closely with Sales, Syndicate and Debt Capital Markets (DCM) teams, providing market intelligence, pricing insights, and trade ideas
- Build strong relationships with clients, brokers, and internal stakeholders
- Maintain strict adherence to regulatory and risk frameworks and contribute to the enhancement of trading tools, analytics, and reporting
The skills you’ll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll have a strong understanding of fixed income and credit markets along with experience trading financial or corporate bonds, CDS, or structured credit products. You’ll also have a solid grasp of risk management principles including spread, default, and liquidity risk, combined with good analytical, numerical, and decision-making skills to assess market data and financial information in a fast-paced environment.
You’ll also need:
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proficiency in analytics tools and trading platforms and such as Bloomberg and Tradeweb
- Knowledge of bank fundamentals, capital structures, and relevant regulatory frameworks would be advantageous
- Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics or related field
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
07/09/2026Ways of Working:Office FirstSkills Required
- Experience trading financial or corporate bonds, CDS, or structured credit products
- Strong understanding of fixed income and credit markets
- Knowledge of spread, default, and liquidity risk management
- Strong analytical, numerical, and decision-making skills
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proficiency with Bloomberg, Tradeweb, and analytics or trading platforms
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field
- Knowledge of bank fundamentals, capital structures, and relevant regulatory frameworks
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
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