Sales Trading Assistant Trade Booking & Onboarding

Optiver; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global trading firm in London is seeking a motivated Sales Trading Assistant to support trade booking and onboarding processes. You will work closely with traders, ensuring accurate bookings and smooth client onboarding. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree, experience in trade support within financial markets, and skills in Excel, Python, or SQL. This role offers competitive benefits, 27 paid vacation days, and opportunities for growth in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Performance-based bonus

27 paid vacation days

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in trade support or onboarding within financial markets.
• Experience with commodities and/or OTC FX is desirable.
• Ability to automate processes using technical tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform trade bookings and ensure smooth post-trade processes.
• Onboard new trading counterparties and manage client due diligence.
• Coordinate with internal teams for effective onboarding.

Skills

Sales Experience

Time Management

Data Entry

Customer Service

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Computer Literacy

Administrative Experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel VBA

Python

SQL

Job description

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Sales Trading Assistant Trade Booking & Onboarding to join our team. This role is ideal for candidates with experience in trade support trading desk assistant middle office or onboarding functions within financial markets. You will work closely with traders in a fast-paced environment ensuring accurate trade booking smooth client onboarding and effective coordination across teams. Strong attention to detail clear communication skills the ability to thrive under pressure and seek to continuously improve are essential to succeed in this role.

What Youll Do

• Perform counterpart block trade bookings in a timely manner; mainly listed commodities options with some CME rates / index / FX trades too.
• Work closely with commodities traders to understand Optivers trading workflows and ensure smooth post trade process with direct counterparts including trade confirms and account settlement.
• Onboard new trading counterparties for both direct trading and broker relationships. This involves thorough client due diligence (KYC AML) via collection and processing.
• Acting as primary point of contact during the onboarding phase interfacing with internal sales legal compliance and technology teams to ensure smooth process. Also interacting with external relationships to ensure they fulfill their side.
• Reporting and tracking progress of all onboarding plus trade reporting issues.
• Develop fluency with existing internal systems exchange booking interfaces and procedures with an aim to proactively improve them;
• Identify opportunities to intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control;
• Work in tandem with back office engineering to ensure the health and stability of the processes and systems.
• Identify solve and implement solutions to problems that block the expansion of our business. Involves working with trading sales corporate strategy and dev teams.
• Become expert in salesforce to help run data on the sales business and overseeing the onboarding process that goes through it.

Who You Are

• Bachelors degree or equivalent.
• Experience working in a trade support / trading or sales desk assistant / middle office / onboarding position or within onboarding function within financial markets.
• Experience working within commodities and / or OTC FX. Knowledge of OTC FXPB 4-way agreements is desirable.
• Experience working with Options products.
• Ability to automate and improve processes by learning and applying technical tools such as Excel VBA Python or SQL is an advantage.
• Comfortable working with traders directly in a fast paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to communicate.
• Competitive attitude and eagerness to constantly improve. Ability to proactively identify both technical and operational deficiencies.
• Ability to learn rules and regulations governing US futures exchanges and OTC FX trading across multiple jurisdictions.
• Understanding of legal and regulatory frameworks that govern onboarding and trading relationships.

Who We Are

At Optiver our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity providing accurate pricing increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions we are a trusted partner of 70 exchanges across the globe.

What Youll Get

Optivers London office is the location of our foreign exchange trading business and a growing hub for our commodity trading business. You will be part of a well-established and high performing global firm whilst experiencing the excitement that comes from a growing operation. As our London operations grows there is a real opportunity to make a huge impact and take us and your career to a new level. We offer a supportive environment for you to perform at your best.

In addition youll receive

• A performance-based bonus structure enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays.
• Daily breakfast and lunch along with support on commuting expenses.
• Private medical insurance pension scheme and ClassPass fitness membership.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities including access to conferences and tech events.
• International transfer opportunities for global career growth.

How To Apply

Are you interested in furthering your career in our rapidly-expanding office in the heart of London

Apply directly via the form below and please provide us with a CV in English. When we think there is a potential match you will hear from us sooner than you expect. If you have any additional questions please feel free to reach out to .

Please note

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Key Skills

Sales Experience,Time Management,Data Entry,Customer Service,Microsoft Outlook,Microsoft Word,Computer Literacy,Microsoft Powerpoint,Furniture Sales,Microsoft Excel,Administrative Experience,Sales Support

Diversity Statement :

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1