Equity Trader

Equity Trader

This role contributes to the identification of sales opportunities and maintenance of business relationships, focusing on specific customer requirements.

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Contribute to the identification of sales opportunities that address specific needs for clients and managing from identification to point of sale
• Contribute to maintenance of business relationships with accounts in assigned area of responsibility
• Assist the team in the efficient marketing of products to their client base and in achieving both Financial and Qualitative annual objectives to their client base
• Share relevant market, customer and counter-party intelligence with colleagues in the HSBC network, in order that the Group derives maximum benefit from its networking potential
• Support the day to day operations of the desk
• Maintain complete records of client orders and execution
• Provide the team management with required management information, in order to inform decision making
• Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure our conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets
• Be a core element of the Group strategy to prevent financial crime (e.g. Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Controls
• Ensure an efficient, high capacity risk management infrastructure that meets internal control standards and achieves the Vision of HSBC being ‘the world’s leading international bank’ by ‘connecting clients with opportunities’
• Understanding of the front to back control environment and the role needs to ensure the leadership tone and operational processes

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in related area
• English proficiency is mandatory
• Knowledge in trading equities in the local market
• Figure 4 AMIB is a plus