Trader, Trading Desk, Treasury, Dublin

Location:

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

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Advertiser:

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Job ID:

130928657

Posted On: 

10 August 2024

Role Title: Trader,
Trading Desk, Treasury

Location:
Molesworth St, Dublin 

(office attendance minimum 4 days a week)

-Are you interested in developing your career in Wholesale Financial Markets?
-Do you want to be part of a dynamic team trading in markets on behalf of AIB?
-Does an inclusive, collaborative and flexible environment sound attractive?
 

AIB Treasury are looking for talented and ambitious person to join our
trading team. This is a permanent role with a competitive benefits package including pension and holiday entitlements.

Sound interesting? Then we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role:

The Trading Team is a key enabler for all interest rate and foreign exchange activity in AIB, meeting the needs of the bank and its customers in Ireland and UK by ensuring access to the wholesale market, providing a deep pool of liquidity and efficient pricing across a range of FX and interest rate products, including spot FX, FX derivatives, interest rate swaps and interest rate options.

This exciting role will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to be part of a dynamic team operating in fast moving markets. They will engage with a wide range of internal customers across AIB’s Customer Treasury Services, Corporate Banking, Banking Book, Issuance and Funding & Liquidity teams in our Irish, UK and US jurisdictions. The successful candidate will also interact on a daily basis with AIB’s interbank counterparties on the wholesale markets. This role within the trading team involves applying clear standards of professionalism in all activities.

The team provides specialist knowledge in support of AIB’s external customer base, ensures market leading pricing and professional dealings across all products, and has sole responsibility for mitigation of the resultant risk in the wholesale markets.

The team works closely with our partners across various business units to support the bank’s customer offering, liquidity and funding activities, structural interest rate hedging programme, fixed income portfolio hedging, issuance hedging and management of other balance sheet risks, providing optimal risk management solutions and ensuring activity is executed in line with relevant regulatory requirements.

Wholesale financial markets have become increasingly impacted by regulatory, conduct and political developments in recent years, such as EMIR, MiFID, UMR, Global FX Code, Brexit etc. These developments are evolving and the team are central to AIB’s response to the ever changing landscape and challenges that impact the business.

Key Responsibilities Include:

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-Be an integral member of a team with a key role in the management of market risk in the Trading Portfolio within approved risk parameters.
-Support internal and external customer requirements across a range of approved products.
-Ensure ongoing access to markets through interbank counterpart relationship management.
-Achieve a challenging income plan through generation of stable trading income and leveraging flows to enhance returns for Treasury.
-Work closely with our Risk and Finance partners ensuring good information flow and efficient and accurate reporting.
-Contribute to relevant working groups that relate to financial market products and initiatives.
 

What you will bring:

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-Experience (3+ years) in banking, e.g. Treasury, Treasury Operations, Finance, Risk, Credit or related area.
-High motivation with a track record of meeting goals and targets in a timely and efficient manner.
-Strong interpersonal skills, building effective relationships and working as part of a team.
-Ability to identify and manage risks within approved risk parameters.
-Relevant degree and/or professional qualification desirable.
-Good understanding of bank risk dynamics and international financial markets.
-Experience in wholesale financial markets/products is desirable.
-An interest in and knowledge of economic and political trends which determine and influence Monetary Policy of the main Central Banks (i.e. Eurozone, USA, UK).
-Location: Dublin (office attendance minimum 4 days a week).
 

Life at AIB

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard for Inclusion & Diversity. We work to ensure that AIB is a place where diversity is welcome, everyone can thrive, and inclusion is a universal experience. We also pride ourselves in having a range of supports for our people for the challenges life might sometimes throw at them.

At AIB, we have a clear purpose – to back our customers to achieve their dreams and ambitions. We want to be at the heart of our customers’ financial lives by giving them an exceptional experience. Sustainability is a core part of our strategy, and we are leading the way in climate finance in Ireland and we pledge to DO MORE.

If this is for you, we would like to hear from you. Click apply and fill in the online application form. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities and we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all applicants and employees. If you would like more information about the role or working in AIB or should you have a reasonable accommodation request, then the Talent Acquisition Team at careersaib.ie

By when?  Closing date is 

Friday 23rd August 2024 

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