Vacature: Trader Assistant
Sector: Trading
Solliciteren tot: 31 Aug 2012
Trader Assistant
This is an excellent opportunity to start your career in the dynamic world of finance. For this role we are looking for someone who has an academic degree, is structured with great communication skills and significant interest in financial markets. In this role you will not only assist the traders in the Arbitrage team, but also be the key link between our traders and our mid office department.
Who we are
Optiver is an international and innovative trading firm, with offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. We focus on electronic market making and arbitrage activities in a wide variety of products including derivatives, stocks and bonds. We trade with our own capital and at our own risk.
Our business covers 5 continents, 20 countries and each of the world's major economic time zones. With around 600 employees worldwide, our culture is one of our most valuable resources: we are an informal and young open company that is extremely ambitious and highly results-driven.
What you'll do
As a Trader Assistant within Optiver you will be working in a highly competitive and fast changing environment. you will be the key link between our traders and our mid office department. Your daily tasks will exist of assisting the traders in the Arbitrage team, data-management, checking transactions/subscriptions and import data. Besides daily tasks you want to improve and will take initiative to critically look at the current processes and streamline where necessary.
What you'll need
- Academic Degree;
- A strong affinity with financial markets;
- A numbers-orientated character;
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and experience with VBA;
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills;
- Ability to work in an accurate and structured way in order to solve problems;
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
What you'll get
Excellent remuneration, great profit sharing, full first-class home-work travel compensation, training opportunities, relocation packages, discounts on health insurance, breakfast and lunch facilities, Friday-afternoon drinks and - yes - even in-house chair massages.
We consider this position to be a starting point for a motivated talent who wants to develop into other departments within Optiver.
Interested?
Apply directly via our website www.optiver.com . Please provide us with a CV and letter of motivation in English. Applications without a letter of motivation will not be reviewed. For more information, contact Kim Ruijer (Trading Recruiter) on +31 (0)20 708 7000.
N.B. If you are selected from your application to proceed to the next round for the position of Trader Assistant, you will be required to take an online test.
