# Trading Assistant

**Company**: Fixed Income
**Location**: London, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Trading Assistant to join our Fixed Income trading pod, which is preparing for an external spinout and needs a scalable support infrastructure to enable its next phase of growth.

As a Trading Assistant, you will capture traded risk accurately in booking systems across a broad Fixed Income product universe, including swaps, bonds, FX, inflation, rates volatility derivatives, futures, and options.

Key responsibilities include:

- Serving as a key point of contact between Portfolio Managers and sales teams or brokers to agree trade details and resolve trade-related issues.

- Partnering closely with Middle Office, Operations, Technology, and Business Management to support timely, accurate trade processing and issue resolution.

- Monitoring and improving trading book efficiency, including FX cash balance cleanups, inter-strategy clean transfers, trade lifecycle management, and unwind package execution.

- Identifying, developing, and delivering tactical process enhancements that create value for the team and individual Portfolio Managers.

- Providing backup trade execution support for the Portfolio Manager team.

- Delivering responsive, front-line trading support as the team prepares for its transition to an independent fund.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- 3+ years of experience in a trade assistant or trading desk support role.

- Strong interest in Fixed Income and derivatives markets; relevant experience is preferred.

- Genuine motivation to learn and support a broad range of traded products, trading styles, and Portfolio Managers.

- A proactive approach to challenging and improving established processes, tasks, and operating models.

- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.

- Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

- Adaptability and openness to expanding the scope of the role as the business evolves.

- Familiarity with AI tools or large language models, and technical coding ability, are advantageous.

## Skills

### Required
- Fixed Income
- derivatives markets
- trade assistant
- trading desk support
- communication skills
- attention to detail
- process improvement

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- large language models
- technical coding ability

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