Snr Spec: Equity Dealer at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• Build an evolving future-ready trading process that can accommodate change and increase efficiency as result of the dynamic shifts in market infrastructure and constant change in global regulations.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 -2 years at a junior specialist level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Finance Economics and Accounting

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant industry qualifications to trade multiple assets and relevant regulatory qualifications (RE5, RE1, Registered Stockbroker or equivalence)

Process

• Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements and provide specialist advice and support; ensuring that solutions are appropriate and effective.
• Interpret financial or market reports and inform relevant parties of market movements and or price changes.
• Consult and advise on applicable price structures and trades, that seeks to maximise assets and/ or minimise financial risk.
• Ensure that price structures reflect the intrinsic value of assets and inform and advise on the impact thereof.
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.
• Build a trading process that utilizes technology and data to better align the investment process with market dynamics, liquidity, regulations and events.
• Executes Equity, Derivatives and FX instruments.
• Evolve the trading process to optimally connect into the new investment strategy with the aim of creating alpha, mitigating liquidity risk and communicating opportunities created by irrational price movements.
• Position the Trading Unit as an industry thought leader through innovative perspectives.
• Engage with internal stakeholders and develop better real time reporting / information dissemination.
• Systematically document the elements relating to Best Execution including the prices received from counterparties and pricing parameters.

Customer

• Provide sound consulting services and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and trends analyses.
• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.
• Build clinical relationships with service providers and help to build an automated scorecard for broker utilisation using historic data.