Senior Trader

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

About us, purpose, experience and qualifications

**about us**:
**purpose**:

- To grow and optimise desk performance and profitability across allocated product type and geography. To drive and manage the assigned Markets trade desks through integrated and innovative product optimisation, people capability, risk mitigation and enabling processes and technologies**experience and qualifications**:

- Degree (BSc. BCom)
- Completion of required legal registrations (registered persons and JSE requirements) Note: these registrations can be completed while in employ within agreed timeframe Preferred qualification:

- Degree (Mathematical, Agricultural Economics, Economic, Statistical field) Technical Knowledge/ skills and experience
- In depth knowledge of:

- Local and International Agricultural Markets
- Global and Financial Markets
- Global Market products
- Application of economic data eg. Interest rates, finance
- Enabling technologies
- Baseline coding skills Competencies:

- Analysis and Attention to Detail
- Big Picture
- Drive and Results Orientation
- Problem Solving
- Customer Service Orientation
- Building Relationships**additional requirements**:
**responsibilities**:

- Understand key competitors, global trends, industry dynamics and key macro environmental forces to analyze and identify desk opportunities and threats. This includes participation and involvement with industry/regulatory forums (where relevant)
- Understand the impact of economic and fundamental indicators e.g. Local and international Supply & Demand, Import & Export parity, exchange rates, emerging markets, global influences (e.g. oil prices) to establish a best-fit position for the desk to effectively trade risk
- Build pricing models that are integrated and relevant in order to establish the fair value of desk product/s
- Analyzing fundamental and historical relationships between products traded on the desk
- Build multi-dimensional “what-if” scenarios to establish desk positions
- Understand the evolving product segment needs in the allocated geography to share information, trade ideas and opportunities that are relevant and bespoke
- Rely on company and other market economic views to formulate desk tactics for the assigned product/s across the geography to enable improved revenue growth
- Manage desk profitability in line with the desk mandates (includes all relevant limits) This includes ensuring that profit and loss (P& L) positioning is reviewed and that submitted predictions are reliable
- Developing and exploring new markets and products to expand the current product offering to clients within the desk’s mandate
- Analyze, identify and evaluate the desk risk areas.
- Generate and implement appropriate controls and solutions to address desk gaps and to mitigate against risk exposure
- Display a workable knowledge of relevant systems and interdependencies between these systems
- Understand and stay close to the needs, wants, motivational perceptions and trading behaviors of desk client groups to ensure solution relevance
- Provide new product offering according to clients’ needs where possible

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