Associate Credit Trader

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients. As an Associate Credit Trader, you will help manage systematic and discretionary credit strategies and support the development of a trading platform for the firm, focusing on various credit instruments.

Responsibilities

• Primarily help managing our discretionary credit and systematic credit trading strategies by maximising our execution platform and technology. Expand remit to trading Systematic and Discretionary macro strategies. Coordinating the company’s involvement in primary offerings and secondary trading
• Liaising and partnering with the investment teams on execution strategy implementation
• Contribute to improvements across signal development, portfolio construction, risk management and trading
• Drive development of our trading platform, infrastructure and technology
• Use qualitative and quantitative analysis to improve performance of our systematic and discretionary strategies
• Develop and maintain relationships with our counterparties
• Collect market intelligence from sales / traders on news, market moves, flows and liquidity opportunities to keep the investment team informed on market dynamics. Adding to the company’s understanding of market microstructure, transaction costs, participants and products in the exchange traded products and OTC space
• Liaising with Portfolio Managers to keep them informed of names impacting respective portfolios
• Determine appropriateness of execution venues for various trades
• Assist in various proprietary algorithm enhancements and experimentations
• Monitoring of execution performance and progress
• Observing internal trading limits and any other restrictions on scope of delegated authority to act on behalf of designation fund/client

Skills

• 1-2 years of experience trading in a financial institution or relevant credit technical experience
• Advanced skill level - programming language such as Python
• Developing and understanding of Market Microstructure
• Hands-on attitude; willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm
• Strong academic record and a degree from a leading university
• Attention to detail and disciplined. Able to work under pressure and in a high-paced environment, with the ability to think quickly
• Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving. Curious, entrepreneurial, and innovative, willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm
• Strong inter-personal skills to enable communication across investment management teams and regions. Clear, concise, and transparent communicator
• Team player, collaborative, customer-focused and results-driven

Benefits

• Competitive holiday entitlements
• Pension/401k
• Life and long-term disability coverage
• Group sick pay
• Enhanced parental leave
• Long-service leave
• Private medical coverage
• Discounted gym membership options
• Pet insurance

Company Overview

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