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About the Role
Jefferies is seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial High-Touch Equity Sales Trader to build our Canadian equities execution business in Toronto. This role offers the opportunity to establish and grow our high-touch trading franchise focused on Canadian-domiciled securities, primarily Canadian-listed equities. The successful candidate will deliver best-in-class execution services to institutional clients and play a key leadership role in expanding our presence in the Canadian market.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-touch execution of Canadian equities and Canadian-domiciled securities from Toronto.
- Execute institutional client orders across all market conditions with a focus on best execution, discretion, and market impact management.
- Provide clients with real-time market color, liquidity insights, sector intelligence, and execution strategy.
- Manage complex order types including block trades, portfolio trades, VWAP/participation strategies, and urgent executions.
- Monitor Canadian equity markets continuously, tracking flow dynamics, sector moves, macro developments, and corporate actions.
- Work closely with electronic and algorithmic trading teams to deliver integrated high-touch and low-touch execution solutions.
- Maintain rigorous risk management, compliance standards, and information barrier protocols.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional clients trading Canadian equities.
- Leverage existing relationships to accelerate client acquisition and revenue growth.
- Develop new client relationships across the Canadian institutional investor community and global accounts active in Canadian securities.
- Partner with equity sales teams to drive client engagement, deepen wallet share, and identify new business opportunities.
- Provide differentiated value through market expertise, execution quality, responsiveness, and client service.
- Represent Jefferies professionally in client meetings, market events, and industry forums.
- Help establish and lead the firm's high-touch Canadian equities execution platform in Toronto.
- Contribute to the strategic direction and growth roadmap for the Canadian cash equities business.
- Identify and pursue opportunities to expand market share and competitive positioning.
- Collaborate with global trading colleagues to align Canadian strategy with broader platform capabilities.
- Support development of internal workflows, trading protocols, coverage models, and operational processes.
- Act as a senior point of contact and subject matter expert for Canadian equities execution.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, high performance, and client-first service.
- Deliver timely and actionable market commentary to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Share trading insights, liquidity observations, and sector trends with sales and research teams.
- Coordinate with U.S. and international trading desks on cross-border execution and global client coverage.
- Engage with exchanges, ECNs, liquidity providers, and other market participants to optimize execution quality.
- Stay current on regulatory developments, market structure changes, and industry trends impacting Canadian equities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in high-touch equity sales trading, preferably with exposure to Canadian equities.
- Strong understanding of Canadian equity market structure, trading venues (TSX, TSX-V, CSE), liquidity dynamics, and sector composition.
- Proven ability to execute large, complex, and sensitive institutional orders with strong judgment and discretion.
- Deep knowledge of execution strategies, order types, market impact analysis, and best execution principles.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
- Strong work ethic, high energy, self-motivation, and entrepreneurial mindset.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative environment.
- Series 7, Series 63, or equivalent Canadian securities licenses (or ability to obtain).
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Business, or related field.
Skills
- High-touch equity sales trading
- Canadian equities execution
- Institutional client execution
- Market color
- Liquidity insights
- Sector intelligence
- Execution strategy
- Risk management
- Client relationship management
- Business development
- Market expertise
- Execution quality
- Responsiveness
- Client service
- Strategic direction
- Market share expansion
- Collaboration
- Market commentary
- Trading insights
- Liquidity observations
- Sector trends
- Cross-border execution
- Global client coverage
Location
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Vice President
- Senior Vice President
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Business, or related field
About the Company
- Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services.
- With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.