Job Description:
OTC Trader, APAC
Complexity and Impact of Work:
Perform principal trading exposure management infrastructure and processes. This includes building and optimizing the trading desk’s pricing, risk models and governing controls.
Contribute to efforts of increasing automation, so that traders can focus on only the most complicated trades, project work, or client engagement.
Closely follow market narratives to contribute perspectives to internal research efforts, which may be used to increase engagement with trading clients.
Help to inform new products and capabilities within the trading business to meet our clients’ overall needs
While on coverage, be available to immediately respond to changing exposures, client questions and requests. This includes rotations on weekends and off-hours.
Organizational Knowledge:
Is keenly aware of how Trading fits within the firm’s broader strategy, both as a tool and a standalone business, to provide input to the technology roadmap and implementation.
Understands upstream and downstream implications of process changes, proactively voicing ideas and concerns as the business scales. This includes understanding industry trends, regulatory guidelines, and best practices related to trading and settlements.
Ensures that knowledge is shared among stakeholder teams and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
Communication and Influence:
Stay up to date with the underlying themes driving market prices and liquidity to deepen client interactions and execution strategies.
Champion the perspective of the Trading Solutions team during cross-department conversations and with existing clients.
Act as a mentor for more junior members of the team, empowering the team to become experts in our current processes, while collaborating to implement enhancements to the trading desk
Job Requirements:
5+ years experience as an OTC trader in the cryptocurrency space.
Demonstrated ability to convert institutional prospects into trading clients.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
You’re proud of your crypto Twitter feed and ability to uncover narratives driving crypto markets and specific coins.
You enjoy using memes as a method of communication.
You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
Benefits:
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