Senior Credit Trader
Key Responsibilities
Investment & Portfolio Management
- Manage a portfolio of investment grade spread products, targeting strong risk-adjusted returns while optimising balance sheet usage
- Identify relative value opportunities across credit markets and asset classes, maintaining diversification and controlled volatility
- Execute and manage transactions end-to-end, including pricing, booking, valuation, and ongoing monitoring
- Actively monitor mark-to-market exposures and manage credit risk across the portfolio
- Oversee interest rate risk and ensure alignment of exposures within the broader trading book context
Strategy & Analytics
- Contribute to the development and execution of strategies aimed at optimising capital efficiency, funding, and leverage usage
- Implement hedging strategies to manage complex interest rate exposures
- Capture market dislocations and medium-term rate movements through dynamic positioning
- Conduct macroeconomic analysis and build frameworks to track key market drivers
- Perform detailed credit analysis on issuers, structures, and sectors
Product Coverage & Idea Generation
- Generate investment ideas across sovereign, corporate, and securitised credit markets
- Develop internal tools and frameworks (e.g., valuation models, signalling indicators) to support trade origination and decision-making
- Experience with structured credit and mortgage-related products is advantageous
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