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About the Role
Establish, build, and lead a new Fixed Income trading business, with end-to-end responsibility for strategy, trading, technology, team build-out, risk management, and commercial development. This is a unique opportunity to build a new franchise from the ground up and have significant influence over its strategy, structure, and development.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the strategy for CMC Markets' Fixed Income trading business, including product scope, market coverage, liquidity model and client proposition.
- Lead the build-out of the trading desk, with responsibility for trading, pricing, execution, liquidity and inventory management.
- Establish an appropriate risk management framework in partnership with Risk and Treasury, ensuring market, liquidity and counterparty risks are effectively managed.
- Define the technology and infrastructure requirements for the business, working with Technology and Operations to implement scalable front-to-back trading capabilities.
- Recruit, develop and lead the Fixed Income team as the business grows.
- Develop and manage relationships with liquidity providers, counterparties, execution venues and other key market participants.
- Partner with Account Executives and commercial teams to develop the client franchise, support key client relationships and drive trading volumes and revenue.
- Work closely with Treasury on funding, liquidity and balance-sheet requirements and with Operations on robust trade and settlement processes.
- Partner with Compliance, Legal and Risk to ensure the business operates within appropriate regulatory and governance frameworks.
- Take ownership of the commercial performance of the Fixed Income franchise and identify opportunities for its continued development and expansion.
Requirements
- Established Fixed Income trading professional with significant experience in institutional markets and the credibility to build and lead a new business at Executive Director level.
- Deep knowledge of Fixed Income markets, pricing, liquidity, execution and risk management.
- Strong understanding of the technology and infrastructure required to support a modern trading operation.
- Demonstrable commercial track record.
- Strong relationships across the Fixed Income market.
- Experience working with institutional or professional clients.
- Previous experience building or materially expanding a trading desk or business would be highly advantageous.
- Entrepreneurial, hands-on and commercially focused leader.
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with practical execution.
- Comfortable operating across trading, technology, risk, operations and client development.
- Leadership skills required to build a high-performing team and a sustainable Fixed Income franchise.
Skills
- Fixed Income trading
- Strategy development
- Trading
- Pricing
- Execution
- Liquidity management
- Inventory management
- Risk management
- Technology infrastructure
- Team leadership
- Relationship management
- Commercial development
Experience Level
- Executive Director level
About the Company
- CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age
Equal Opportunity
- CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age