Responsibilities

• Strong trading expertise on either Listed Products and/or Fixed Income products. Working knowledge across the following broad based list of products:
• Listed products include (not exhaustive) : Equity, ETFs, Futures and Options, Listed Open Funds (LOF), Fixed income
• Fixed Income: China Inter Bond Market
• FX Spot / Forward / Swaps / Options.
• OTC Derivatives: IRS, CDS, ILS, TRS, Swaptions.
• Manage relationships with Investment teams.
• Seek optimal client satisfaction through execution, communication, and relationships.
• Play an integral part on a 'valued added' basis to investment process by leveraging market knowledge and counterparty contact to improve performance and influence outcomes.
• Gather and report market intelligence to Portfolio Management teams.
• Manage relationships with brokers / counterparties.
• Maintain and develop strong, transparent and constructive relationships with brokers to obtain the best service for the firm's clients.
• Perform control functions (level 1 controls) in line with BNPP AM policies
• Where necessary, gather information required to perform controls.
• Work with different teams (internal and external) to optimize reports used for controls thereby reducing manual work
• Review Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) report on a daily basis where available and explain any major deviations to the desk head / direct reporting line for sign off. Where no TCA report is available, this may require the trader to preparing a P&L report each day.
• For all staff other than managers (permanent control aspects):
  • Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
  • Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan
  • Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines
  • Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System
  • Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.

Key Internal / External Relationships

• Internal: GTF APAC, Portfolio Managers, Risk and Compliance Teams
• External: Brokers, Vendors (eg, Hundsun), Regulators

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Analytical skills: Identifies all aspects of a subject and examines them in a critical way to construct a broad point of view.
• Accuracy: Constantly attentive to the precision and thoroughness of the information sent and to the quality of the work.
• Risk Management: Detects, analyzes and measures risks relating to activities in the organization and marketplace.
• Communication skills: Expresses his / her messages, both orally and in writing, in an effective, organized way.
• Teamwork: Knows how to work in a team and/or across teams, acts bearing common interests and respect for fellow team members.
• Taking Initiative: Works proactively and independently, implementing work processes, ideas and solutions.
• Results-Driven: Seeks to achieve the objectives set within the defined timeframe, continuously seeks optimum performance.
• Willingness to learn : Trading in multi assets; ability and willingness to learn to trade in different asset class.

Specific Qualifications

• Certificate of National Interbank Trading is a must for fixed income trading

Job ID 48312476