Institutional Salestrader

CGS INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CGS INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. is seeking a market-savvy professional to support institutional client coverage across Asia-Pacific. You will track news, provide market colour, and deliver daily updates while ensuring best execution.

The role involves executing trades (manual and algorithmic), understanding liquidity and regulatory requirements, and developing execution solutions to meet client objectives.

Qualifications

• Strong interest in equities, financial markets, trading, and institutional client coverage.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and concise market colour to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail, with a disciplined approach to trade execution, risk control, and compliance.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving trading environment.
• Team-oriented, proactive, and commercially minded, with a strong focus on client service and revenue generation.

Responsibilities

• Track global financial news, market trends, sector developments, and price movements to provide clients with timely and relevant market insights.
• Deliver high-touch client service through daily market updates, research highlights, trade ideas, and actionable market colour.
• Execute trades across Asia-Pacific, both manually and via algorithms, while ensuring best execution and minimal trading errors.
• Understand market microstructure, liquidity conditions, trading protocols, and regulatory requirements across multiple exchanges.
• Maintain strong relationships with institutional clients by understanding their trading needs, execution preferences, and investment objectives.
• Develop customised execution solutions for clients, including agency execution, algorithmic trading, program trades, block trades, and other liquidity solutions.
• Source and execute block trade opportunities, while helping to expand client access to the firm’s equity products, liquidity network, and stock lending capabilities.
• Support equities product distribution in partnership with Sales, Research, and Equity Capital Markets.
• Assist in the distribution of ECM transactions, including IPOs, equity placements, rights issues, preferential offerings, and other capital market deals.
• Ensure trade execution quality and full compliance with internal policies, exchange rules, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Perform post-trade duties including trade booking, trade amendments, FX booking, allocation checks, and settlement follow-up where required.
• Work closely with Operations and Settlement teams to resolve trade-related issues and ensure smooth post-trade processing.
• Assist in onboarding new institutional clients, including coordination of documentation, trading setup, market access, platform configuration, and internal approvals.
• Contribute to desk revenue growth by supporting client coverage, improving execution service quality, and proactively sharing trading insights with clients and internal teams.

Skills

Strong interest in equities

Financial markets

Trading

Institutional client coverage

Communication skills

Market colour

Attention to detail

Trade execution

Risk control

Compliance

Working under pressure

Team-oriented

Client service

Revenue generation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Track global financial news, market trends, sector developments, and price movements to provide clients with timely and relevant market insights.


• Deliver high-touch client service through daily market updates, research highlights, trade ideas, and actionable market colour.


• Execute trades across Asia-Pacific, both manually and via algorithms, while ensuring best execution and minimal trading errors.


• Understand market microstructure, liquidity conditions, trading protocols, and regulatory requirements across multiple exchanges.


• Maintain strong relationships with institutional clients by understanding their trading needs, execution preferences, and investment objectives.


• Develop customised execution solutions for clients, including agency execution, algorithmic trading, program trades, block trades, and other liquidity solutions.


• Source and execute block trade opportunities, while helping to expand client access to the firm’s equity products, liquidity network, and stock lending capabilities.


• Support equities product distribution in partnership with Sales, Research, and Equity Capital Markets.


• Assist in the distribution of ECM transactions, including IPOs, equity placements, rights issues, preferential offerings, and other capital market deals.


• Ensure trade execution quality and full compliance with internal policies, exchange rules, and applicable regulatory requirements.


• Perform post-trade duties including trade booking, trade amendments, FX booking, allocation checks, and settlement follow-up where required.


• Work closely with Operations and Settlement teams to resolve trade-related issues and ensure smooth post-trade processing.


• Assist in onboarding new institutional clients, including coordination of documentation, trading setup, market access, platform configuration, and internal approvals.


• Contribute to desk revenue growth by supporting client coverage, improving execution service quality, and proactively sharing trading insights with clients and internal teams.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong interest in equities, financial markets, trading, and institutional client coverage.


• Good communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and concise market colour to clients and internal stakeholders.


• Strong attention to detail, with a disciplined approach to trade execution, risk control, and compliance.


• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving trading environment.


• Team-oriented, proactive, and commercially minded, with a strong focus on client service and revenue generation.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Knowledge and understanding of trading strategies, algorithm functions, and how to apply them in daily execution across different exchanges and markets.


• Experience in working careful discretionary orders, with good market feel and judgement when executing across different markets and liquidity conditions.


• Comfortable working with trading platforms, OMS/EMS systems, FIX connectivity, and algorithmic execution tools.


• Good understanding of regional market structure, execution channels, exchange rules, and regulatory requirements.


• Familiarity with post-trade processes including trade booking, amendments, FX booking, allocations, and settlement follow-up.


• AI literacy, including the ability to use AI tools responsibly to improve market monitoring, research summarisation, workflow efficiency, and client service.

Years of Relevant Experience: 0

Education qualification(s): Bachelor's Degree