Base Metals Trader, VP

The Trader is a senior level position responsible for overseeing a trading book and managing book risk, in coordination with the Trading team. The overall objective of this role is to ensure book trades deliver on budgeted revenues, and to coordinate with key stakeholders to develop the trading franchise.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee a trading book as a Senior trader and generate revenues and manage risk for the respective business

• Work with sales and structuring to build and maintain a franchise.

• Establish and maintain key relationships to grow the business

• Anticipate client demand in each respective product/market and facilitate large client trades

• Coordinate with desk analysts as needed and with sales to develop the franchise. Manage and mentor junior traders as needed

• Leading strong governance and controls

• Work in close partnership with control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit, Finance in order to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure

• Build a culture of responsible finance, good governance and supervision, expense discipline and ethics

• Appropriately assess risk/reward of transactions when making business decisions; demonstrating proper consideration for the firm’s reputation.

• Be familiar with and adhere to Citi’s Code of Conduct and the Plan of Supervision for Global Markets and Securities Services

• Adhere to all policies and procedures as defined by your role which will be communicated to you

• Obtain and maintain all registrations/licenses which are required for your role, within the appropriate timeframe

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• Prior Base Metals experience required
• In-depth knowledge of respective products and clients
• Proven history of successful trading book management
• Required licensing and registrations as applicable
• Advance analytical and numerical competency
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to analyze and pitch situations and determine suitable counterparties
• Knowledge of Bloomberg, booking systems, trading protocol, closing technicalities

• Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.

  The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

  Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

  Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

  • Honesty, integrity and reputation

  • Financial soundness

  • Competence and capability

  In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.

  This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.

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