Wealth Management - Trader J19596

CICC; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 300,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

CICC's Wealth Management international trading desk seeks a junior trader/operations analyst to support cross-asset trading, product onboarding, and ongoing digitalization initiatives. You will manage trade booking, reconciliation, and settlement coordination with back and middle offices, while ensuring adherence to internal standards; collaborate with colleagues across teams.

A Bachelor's degree plus 1–3 years in finance and fluent English are required; securities/futures licences are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience in the financial industry.
• Fluent English, strong communication and document-processing abilities.
• Securities industry licence and futures industry licence.

Responsibilities

• Execute multi-asset trades for Wealth Management's international trading desk.
• Assist with internal product onboarding and new product structures.
• Support development of trading and product-related ideas and digitalization projects.
• Manage trade booking, reconciliation, and settlement coordination with middle- and back-office teams.
• Review issuer eligibility and maintain counterparty relationships.

Job description

Execute multi-asset trades, such as bonds and structured products for Wealth Management's international trading desk.

Implement internal product onboarding procedures and introduce new product structures to enhance the product platform.

Support the development of new trading and product related business ideas.

Boost international trading and product related digitalization projects.

Assist the business with the funds subscription and redemption of proprietary FOF portfolios.

Maintain connections with current counterparties, onboard new product counterparties, and make sure all issuers adhere to our most recent internal standards. Review issuer eligibility on a regular basis.

Manage trade booking, trade reconciliation, and product delivery and settlement coordination with middle- and back-office teams.

Create trading operation guidelines and operational procedure guides for trading and product business.

Skills and Abilities

Demonstrates outstanding integrity, honesty, humility, perseverance as well as remarkable ethical behaviour.

Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines.

1-3 years of relevant experience in the financial industry.

Proficient in end‑to‑end workflows of offshore structured notes business with relevant transaction experience, covering a wide range of prevailing overseas note structures, signing modalities for distribution agreements, product onboarding and product risk‑rating, quoting systems and procedures, as well as trade execution in compliance with best‑execution principles.

Familiar with various note issuers and their respective comparative advantages.

Possess fluent English proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, with strong verbal communication and document‑processing capabilities.

Excellent communication and teamwork abilities, with strong execution and capacity to work under pressure.

Hold a securities industry licence and a futures industry licence.

Disclaimer:

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The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of the work to be performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.