Associate Cross-Asset Trader

Job Description

To provide execution and order placement services to Mans investment engines.

Responsibilities:

Regulatory and legal framework

• Be aware of and act in accordance with the regulatory and legal framework governing the traders activities including any relevant market abuse rules
• To the extent applicable understand and abide by relevant market risk limits and thresholds and prudential levels

Policies and Procedures

• Know understand and comply with Mans Global Compliance policies and any internal procedures relevant to the traders business activities and with the requirements set out in Mans Staff Handbook and Global Code of Ethics as well as any global regional and local compliance manuals
• Obtain appropriate authorisation to trade pursuant to the PMs recorded instructions
• Report regularly to their appointed line manager
• At the end of each day ensure that all transactions for which the trader is responsible for executing have been recorded in the trading system correctly
• Report any potential regulatory concerns to Compliance and to the appointed line manager. This includes any market activity of a suspicious nature as well as known or suspected breaches of regulation exchange rules or firm policy

Best Execution

• Continue to improve process to ensure Man meets its Best Execution obligations for Mans clients
• Maximise alpha retention post investment decision through:
  - Robust framework for continuous evaluation and improvement of the execution process to minimise slippage and explicit trading costs
  - Application of quantitative methods combined with trading experience to decide and discuss with the PM the optimal execution strategy to best match the PMs trading and investment objectives

Leverage Trading Technology

• Develop trading technology to improve execution toolkit
• Embrace technology to help automate workflow
• Drive development of our trading platform infrastructure and technology.
• Use qualitative and quantitative analysis to improve performance of our systematic and discretionary strategies.

Broker Execution Evaluation/Review

• Oversight of broker roster and ensuring proper allocation of flow keeping in mind metrics of broker performance coverage model execution research and operational efficiency
• Feedback to executing brokers of areas of improvement ranking etc.
• Prime Broker relationship management to maintain and optimise said relationships
• Liaison with operations teams to ensure no disruption or backlog with the brokers resulting in process bottlenecks leading to missed opportunities on the execution front in the pursuit of best execution

Operational & Workflow Considerations

• Ability to raise/cancel an order ticket based on the PMs recorded instructions if required (this should not be viewed as standard practise)
• Continue to be able to view PMs holdings
• Assist Middle Office to ensure timely matching of trades
• Liaison with stock loan desk

Key Skills & Experience:

1-3 years of experience trading in a financial institution or relevant technical experience.

Advanced skill level - programming language such as Python SQL

Developing and understanding of Market Microstructure.

Hands-on attitude; willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm.

Strong academic record and a degree from a leading university.

Attention to detail and disciplined. Able to work under pressure and in a high-paced environment with the ability to think quickly.

Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving. Curious entrepreneurial and innovative willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm.

Strong inter-personal skills to enable communication across investment management teams and regions. Clear concise and transparent communicator.

Team player collaborative customer-focused and results-driven.

Strong proficiency in Mandarin both written and verbal

Willingness to travel and work from our Shanghai office