Treasury Trader - Fixed Income

Invenire Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Invenire Group in London is seeking a Fixed Income Treasury Trader for its front-office team. The role concentrates on repo financing, liquidity management and collateral optimisation across currencies, working closely with Portfolio Managers and risk teams.

The successful candidate will combine treasury responsibilities with trading across rates and fixed income markets, identifying relative-value opportunities and optimising funding across the investment platform.

Qualifications

• Front-office trading experience in hedge funds, banks, or prop shops.
• Strong knowledge of repo and secured financing including GC/specials.
• Experience with short-term rate products such as OIS, STIR futures and FRAs.
• Broad understanding of fixed income markets including government bonds and swaps.
• Experience managing funding and liquidity across currencies.
• Solid understanding of collateral, margins, and balance-sheet impacts.
• Ability to assess financing opportunities on an all-in economic basis.
• Familiarity with settlement, collateral movements, and failed-trade issues.

Responsibilities

• Execute repo, reverse repo, and other secured financing transactions across bonds and rates in multiple currencies.
• Manage financing across bilateral, tri-party, and centrally cleared markets, optimise pricing and collateral usage.
• Identify relative-value opportunities across short-term rates, government bonds, swaps, futures, FX.
• Actively manage liquidity and unencumbered cash to generate incremental returns while preserving liquidity.
• Allocate collateral and optimise cash and security use across counterparties and portfolios.
• Assess true economic cost of trades including financing, margin, liquidity and balance-sheet factors.
• Monitor funding maturities, liquidity requirements and counterparty exposures.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers, Risk teams and external financiers to improve funding efficiency.

Skills

Front-office trading experience

Repo financing

Multi-currency funding

Collateral management

Fixed income markets understanding

Interest-rate products (OIS, STIR, FRA

Risk awareness and liquidity planning

Haircuts and collateral economics

Job description

Our client, a growing hedge fund is looking to add a Fixed Income Treasury Trader to its London team. The role will be an attractive total comp figure.

This is a front-office trading role focused on fixed income financing, repo, liquidity and collateral optimisation. The successful candidate will work closely with Portfolio Managers and internal risk teams to optimise funding across the investment platform while actively managing cash and financing opportunities.

The role combines traditional treasury and financing responsibilities with active trading and relative-value opportunities across rates and fixed income markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute repo, reverse repo and other secured financing transactions across government bonds and rates products in multiple currencies.
• Manage financing across bilateral, tri-party and centrally cleared markets, optimising pricing, collateral usage and haircuts.
• Identify and execute relative-value opportunities across short-term rates, government bonds, swaps, futures, FX and cross-currency basis.
• Actively manage liquidity and unencumbered cash, identifying opportunities to generate incremental returns while maintaining appropriate liquidity.
• Manage collateral allocation and optimise the use of cash and securities across counterparties and trading portfolios.
• Assess the true economic cost of trades, incorporating financing, margin, liquidity, capital and balance-sheet considerations.
• Monitor funding maturities, liquidity requirements and counterparty exposures to ensure sufficient resilience across the portfolio.
• Partner closely with Portfolio Managers, Risk and external financing counterparties to improve overall capital and funding efficiency.

Experience & Skills

• Front-office trading experience gained within a hedge fund, investment bank, proprietary trading firm or similar markets environment.
• Strong practical knowledge of repo and secured financing, ideally including matched-book trading, GC/specials and government bond financing.
• Experience trading or managing exposure across short-term interest-rate products such as OIS, STIR futures and FRAs.
• Broad understanding of fixed income markets, including government bonds, interest-rate swaps, futures and cross-currency basis.
• Experience managing funding and liquidity across multiple currencies.
• Strong understanding of collateral, margin, haircuts and the balance-sheet implications of trading decisions.
• Comfortable assessing financing and trading opportunities on an all-in economic basis.
• Good understanding of fixed income settlement, collateral movements, market cut-offs and failed-trade management.