Equity Derivatives - High Touch Sales Trader
Job Description
About Us:
Huatai International Financial Holdings Company Limited (“Huatai International” or “the Company”), is the only overseas wholly-owned or controlled subsidiary of Huatai Securities. Huatai International is the Huatai Group’s international arm which plays as a crucial role in the group's internationalization strategy by:
a) not only providing offshore capital market services (and a global business platform) but also provides onshore clients with valuable cross-border capital market services (aligned with the mainland China government’s policies and commercial intentions);
b) actively making use of Huatai Securities’ leading position, distribution network and customer base in mainland China;
c) integrating on a global basis across many jurisdictions and regions, a successful and fully integrated international financial platform with innovative financial services solutions.
Huatai International operates as a holding company for consolidating all of the group’s cross-border businesses and companies under one umbrella, offering a truly unified and international business platform. In recognition of such international strength, the renowned international rating agency Standard and Poor’s has assigned Huatai International a “BBB+” rating (for long term) and “A-2” (for short-term).
Job Description:
- Identify revenue opportunities with existing clients and develop new accounts to maximize revenue
- Execute institutional clients’ orders for global markets
- Interact with institutional clients on market color, flow and stock ideas to generate business
- Handle client’s requests / enquiries
- Work with equity derivatives, sales, research and electronic sales trading teams to provide best coverage for clients
- Lead system optimization and ad hoc projects
- Train up junior sales trading staff
- Coordinate with operations, compliance, settlement teams to resolve settlement failure, trade exceptions and ensure end-to-end process integrity
Qualifications:
- Bachelor with major in business administration or related academic discipline is preferred
- Minimum 10 years of experience in equity trading area with wide hedge fund coverage & knowledge in algorithmic trading preferred
- SFC licensed with Type 1 and 4, knowledgeable about local and cross border regulatory and compliance requirements A robust network of relationships with institutional clients, especially international LO & HF, are preferred.
- Strong client development skills
- Knowledge in any programming language is a plus
- Strong experience on block trade, good sense of compliance and risk control
- Good team player and ability to work under pressure with attention to details
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skill on both written and verbal, English and Mandarin