Join us as an FX Strategist
- You’ll be joining join a high performing team in a fast-paced trading floor, with high levels of client engagement
- Your focus will be on major European currencies, as well as inputting into the global macro view
- It’s an opportunity to gain exposure to a wide variety of clients from an early stage, from subject matter experts to large hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds
What you'll do
As an FX Strategist, you’ll be part of the thought leadership of our sales and trading business, formulating trade ideas or investment opportunities relevant to the current macro environment and our broad range of clients.
You’ll also be:
- Engaging with internal and external risk takers, along with senior management within a high-profile markets business
- Analysing market-related data, trends, and events, and generating ideas about market risks and opportunities to engage our clients
- Providing modelling, analysis, forecasting outlooks for major currency pairs and publishing regular and ad-hoc strategy notes
- Continuously updating internal and external clients through formal publications, chats, calls, podcasts and media appearances to promote insights, capabilities and products
- Taking all reasonable steps to make sure that Strategy activities are fully in line with policies covering conduct, operational and regulatory risks
The skills you'll need
To take on this role, you’ll need a strong background in international economics and econometric modelling. You’ll also bring the ability to manipulate data using Excel, as well some econometric techniques. Ideally, you’ll also have programming experience.
Additionally, you’ll need:
- The ability to be creative with analytics to support ideas with data, frameworks and visualisations
- Good verbal and written communication skills to interact with internal and external clients and the media, and to present at various multi-client events
- A strong work ethic and an active awareness of operational and regulatory risks
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
Job Posting Closing Date is not yet published.
Ways of Working:Office First
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
