Rates E-Trading Strat

End Date
Monday 22 April 2024
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Job Description
Job Title: Rates E-Trading Strat, LBCM
Location: London
Salary: Competitive package
Hours: Full-time
About this opportunity
An opportunity has arisen within LBCM Financial Markets working in our Rates electronic trading strat team.
LBCM Financial Markets is the customer-facing Rates, FX and Commodities sales and trading business of Lloyds Banking Group. Our growing business needs to continue to expand our electronic trading and workflow capabilities by adding a Rates e-trading strat to the team.
You’ll be critical in our ability to succeed in meeting our strategic customer, market and business goals, you’ll be required to drive improvements and simplification in the electronic trading platform, tools and processes, working closely day-to-day with the trading desks.
You’ll work as part of the Rates e-trading strats team and support the rates trading desk by suggesting, discussing, designing and implementing new and improved workflows for how they interact with clients via electronic trading platforms and venues to improve our ability to serve customer needs.
In addition to working alongside sales and trading colleagues, you’ll work with colleagues across Financial Markets, as well as in the Quantitative Research team, Engineering, and control partners. The ability to build and maintain a broad network across partners will be key to success.
In role, your responsibilities will include:

• Specification, design and implementation of curves, pricing, relative value metrics, and risk for the desk to market-make in interest rate swaps, inflation swaps and government bonds;
• Working with Engineering, Quantitative Research, and control partners and other colleagues to ensure implementation of new solutions is consistent with relevant regulatory requirements and internal procedures;
• Leading and delivering required outcomes for a portfolio of projects;
• Maintaining relationships with internal partners; and
• Maintaining required documentation and assisting with governance.

About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to
innovate, explore possibilities, and grow with purpose.
What You'll Need
As Rates E-Trading Strat, you’ll be expected to have some or all of:

• Meaningful experience in financial markets, data, models and analytics development/use
• Experience with the Python programming language and numerical libraries in a software development setting
• Familiarity with Excel / VBA;
• Demonstrates awareness and proactive approach to control and conduct agenda;
• Strong organisational, written and verbal communication skills; and
• Influencing and analytical skills that demonstrate passion, enthusiasm and a ‘can do’ outlook.

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you!
This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing ‘significant harm’ to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks
As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA’s Financial Services Register
This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook
The Person (“P”) performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1) P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC 27.8.19R; and(2) those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm.
If you manage certified colleagues this role will be identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC 27.8.13R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.