Metals Trade Assistant

Calling all Base or Precious Metals Trade Assistants!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a unique business and become part of one of the last live trading rings in Europe!

Please reach out if you have substantial experience in a Metals, Futures Trade Booking function, ideally with some supervisory past experience.

METALS TRADE ASSISTANT

Salary: £65,000Location: London

Keywords: Trading Operations, Market Operations, Benchmark Administrator, LME Rules and Regulations, Price Discovery

Our client is seeking a Metals Trade Assistant to join their dynamic team in London. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of the world's centre for industrial metals trading, where in 2021, 145 million lots were traded, equating to $15.6 trillion and 3.3 billion tonnes notional with a market open interest high of 2.1million lots. The successful candidate will have the chance to work in a supportive environment that values teamwork, commitment, and dependability.

* Salary: £65,000* Location: London* Full-time position with flexible working hours

What you'll do:

As a Metals Trade Assistant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of our client's trading activities. Your responsibilities will include providing day-to-day functional and technical expertise, maintaining professional external relationships, and taking ownership of projects and change requests in your assigned areas. You will also represent Trading Operations at various stakeholder meetings, provide training and supervision to staff, participate in determining Futures reference prices, manage the Error Trade Policy and Dynamic Price Bands effectively, and determine the Closing Prices for Traded Options.

* Provide day-to-day functional and technical expertise in assigned areas.* Maintain professional external relationships through customer engagement and member visits.* Take ownership of projects and change requests in assigned areas.* Represent Trading Operations at various stakeholder meetings.* Provide training and supervision to Trading Operations staff.* Participate in the determination of Futures reference prices.* Ensure the Error Trade Policy and Dynamic Price Bands are managed effectively.* Determine the Closing Prices for Traded Options.

What you bring:

The ideal candidate for this Metals Trade Assistant role will bring significant functional experience as a subject matter expert either working for a Member/Client, other Exchange or in the trading environment. They will have good knowledge or experience in electronic trading and a thorough understanding of market terminology and rules and regulations. Strong written communication skills are essential for this role, along with quick and accurate numerical skills. The ability to work under pressure is also key.

* Significant functional experience as a subject matter expert either working for a Member/Client, other Exchange or in the trading environment.* Good knowledge or experience in electronic trading.* Thorough understanding of market terminology and rules and regulations.* Strong written communication skills.* Quick and accurate numerical skills.* Ability to work under pressure.

What sets this company apart:

Our client is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. They value education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression and reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, they want every employee to feel their commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.

What's next:

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