Equity Trading - London - Global Asset Manager

Responsibilities:

Trading and execution of investment decisions, inflows, redemptions, maintenance of exposures and adhering to best execution and fair allocation for the funds
Managing market interaction with all trading counterparties, investment banks and brokers, ensuring liquidity, block trades sourcing (primary and secondary market), research and market intelligence
Ensuring cash levels are kept to a minimum in funds, solving overdraft and settlement problems as soon as possible
Ensuring fx is managed appropriately and levels are kept in place
Collaborating with others in the Equity Trading team in the development of investment implementation strategies.
Follow best practices for all risk, compliance and regulatory matters, making sure that communication via all electronic media is professional, on a need to know basis and precise
Keeping trading commissions to a minimum, ongoing monitoring of such
The successful candidate will use a variety of tools to develop clear and informative reports and visualizations of data sets to support analysis.
Keeping up-to-date on industry norms, technologies, regulations, and regional market structure.
You will build and maintain strong internal and external relationships.

Requirements

Strong experience within a similar role
Ability to trade in all aspects of equity markets in Emerging Markets (experience of Latam preferable, but not essential), and liaising with portfolio managers on security. Additionally, cover for Asia and Ceemea on staff absence
Market knowledge on covered countries regarding trading, counterparties etc
Ability to source securities adhering to industry best market practices and best execution
Ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks within tight deadlines
Rigorous attention to detail
Ability to work independently
Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation and with external contacts
High level of competence in Bloomberg and Microsoft Office applications (Excel and Word), knowledge of Thinkfolio Investment Management System (or a similar trade booking and compliance system) preferable
You understand equity trading market structure and trading rules for EMEA country markets.
You hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree.