We are looking for an experienced Exchange Traded Options DTR with strong interpersonal skills and an advanced knowledge across local and international capital markets. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a high-performing, client facing team of DTRs, providing tier 1 service across all aspects of trading and execution, and on-going risk management.
Reporting into the Head of Sales and Trading, you will be part of a team structure where we all work equally towards becoming a market-leader in our space. You will be responsible for providing support to the Trading Desk and Business Heads, and fostering strong relationships with clients, counterparties, and key vendors.
The role requires an individual with a deep understanding of the entire front to back trade flow for this role, understanding both ETO and Equity trade life cycles from execution to settlement and on-going risk management of all relevant products.
The responsibilities will also include:
Trade Execution & Market Oversight
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Execute client orders in line with best execution policies
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Vet client orders to ensure a fair and orderly market
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Collaborate with brokers and market makers as needed
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Address trade-related queries from clients
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Work closely with Compliance & Legal teams for market surveillance
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Generate reports on client and business activity
Risk & Operational Management
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Monitor daily trading risk, post-trade performance, and compliance (Rules S1 & FNZ Margin Suite)
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Provide first-level trading support to external clients
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Escalate unusual trading activity to management & compliance teams
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Manage cash and collateral, including intra-day risk and margining
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Oversee Short-Term Exposure Limit (STEL) & Cash Market Margining (CMM)
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Ensure integration between front and back-office systems
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Assist in product setup & maintenance
What are we ideally looking for in a successful candidate?
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A minimum of five years' experience in trading, covering both institutional and retail clients across equities and ETOs.
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National DTR Cash Equities & Derivatives Accreditation.
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Comprehensive understanding of Market Integrity Rules and trading regulations.
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Strong technical knowledge of CHESS, ASX settlement systems, and FIX development.
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Experience with AML, KYC, risk control frameworks, and vendor management.
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Proficiency in software development and scripting is advantageous.
Exposure to the following systems and processes would be highly beneficial:
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IRESS/IOS+ | X-Plan | IPS | FNZ SHARES, FrontOffice, DCA, Margin Suite, RuleS1
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FIX & SWIFT protocols
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Agility Suite, Nasdaq, SMARTS, Bloomberg
Why should you join us?
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A competitive salary and excellent benefits, including full comprehensive health insurance, Life insurance, additional annual leave days after your first 12 months, sick days, and more.
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Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies.
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We provide global career opportunities for our employees at any of our offices in the UK, Czech Republic, Australia, New Zealand, China and more.
About FNZ
FNZ is a global FinTech firm, transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. We partner with banks, insurers and asset managers to help people achieve their financial goals through our unique combination of technology leadership, innovation and asset servicing.
Today, we are responsible for over USD $1.5T in assets-under-administration, held by more than 24 million customers of some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including Standard Life Aberdeen, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, Aviva, Quilter, HSBC, Santander, Vanguard, Generali, Zurich, UOB, UBS, National Australia Bank and BNZ.
In total, we partner with over 650+ financial institutions globally and employ over 6,000 people in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Ireland, Sweden and the Czech Republic.
As a leading global provider of outsourced wealth platforms and superannuation services FNZ extended its service offering with the creation of an Australian listed market trade execution, clearing and settlement service to licensed financial intermediaries (Financial Planners, Wealth Managers and Platforms) by setting up a broker that is a member of both the Australian Stock Exchange and CBOE.
If this role appeals to you, please apply by the 7th March 2025.
*Please note we shortlist as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw advertising at any time.
For more information, please reach out to us on [email protected].
About FNZ
FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.
We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.
We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).
Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.
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