Inflation Trader

BBVA; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution seeks an experienced Inflation & Rates Trader in Greater London. The role requires a strong quantitative background and significant experience in trading rates and inflation products. You'll manage significant risks and leverage quantitative expertise to enhance pricing and risk management. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and has programming skills in Python or VBA. Fluency in Spanish is a plus. This is a full-time position with a focus on active risk-taking and relative value opportunities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience trading rates and inflation products at a bank, HF or AM.
• Proven ability to run risk and P&L within defined limits.
• Experience with cross-asset trading (energy, FX, macro rates environment).
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills applied to discretionary trading decisions.
• Spanish will be a nice-to-have.

Responsibilities

• Manage significant risk and deploy sophisticated trade constructions.
• Leverage quantitative expertise to evolve pricing and risk management frameworks.

Skills

External Clients Hedging

Hedging Strategies

Identifying Customer Needs

Income Statements

Internal Market

Market Making

Trading Desks

Education

Strong academic background in quantitative finance, mathematics, physics, engineering or economics

Tools

Python

VBA

Job description

Excited to grow your career

BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers legal experts data scientists developers engineers and designers.

Our rates desk is expanding and we were looking for an experienced Inflation & Rates Trader to help lead the charge. This isn’t just about execution; it’s about active risk‑taking and uncovering relative‑value opportunities across EUR UK and US markets.

About the job

We operate at the intersection of deep market intuition and rigorous data. You will have the autonomy to manage significant risk, deploy sophisticated trade constructions and leverage your quantitative expertise to evolve our pricing and risk management frameworks. If you are a high‑perf ormer who thrives in a fast‑paced front‑office environment we want to hear from you.

Previous Experience and Background

• Strong academic background in quantitative finance, mathematics, physics, engineering or economics.
• Significant experience trading rates and inflation products at a bank, HF or AM.
• Proven ability to run risk and P&L within defined limits.
• Experience with cross‑asset trading (energy FX macro rates environment).

Technical Knowledge

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills applied to discretionary trading decisions.
• Programming skills in Python, VBA or similar for pricing analytics and scenario and algorithm tools.
• Spanish will be a nice‑to‑have.

Soft Skills

• Attention to detail.
• Analytical skills.
• Resilience.
• Good communication skills.
• Market‑making skills.

Skills

• External Clients Hedging
• Hedging Strategies Identifying Customer Needs Income Statements Internal Market Market Making Trading Desks

Employment Type: Full‑Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1