Equity Financing Trader - Associate / Vice President

About the Role

The Equity Financing Trader is a position responsible for managing a secured equity financing book across APAC markets, driving revenue generation and optimising financial resource usage (GSIB/RWA), and mitigating risk, in close coordination with the Trading, Sales, and Structuring teams. The overall objective of this role is to optimise funding costs, manage financial resources and collateral efficiently, while maintaining rigorous risk and controls standards.

Responsibilities

Core Trading & Business

• Arrange secured financing for APAC markets to meet regulatory and internal requirements, raise liquidity, and optimise funding costs. Products include, but are not limited to, securities lending upgrades, repo, total return swaps, and related FX and interest rate derivatives
• Drive optimisation of financial resource usage, with particular focus on GSIB footprint and RWA efficiency
• Manage the collateral pool, including margin and haircut optimisation, to reduce the cost of funding across Equities businesses
• Develop and manage relationships with external trading counterparties; assess market situations and identify suitable counterparties
• Coordinate with Sales, Structuring, and other organisations across Markets and the broader business
• Develop tools and workflows to enhance trading efficiency, book position monitoring, and market surveillance

Risk, Governance & Controls

• Work in close partnership with control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit, and Finance to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure
• Appropriately assess the risk/reward of transactions and business decisions, demonstrating proper consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, applying sound ethical judgment, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency
• Adhere to all policies and procedures as defined by your role; obtain and maintain all required registrations and licenses within the appropriate timeframe
• Contribute to a culture of responsible finance, sound governance, supervision, expense discipline, and ethics

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of experience in equity financing or a related trading role
• In-depth knowledge of equity financing products and APAC equity market structure
• Strong coding ability in Python and/or SQL, with demonstrated application to trading tools or analytics
• Proficiency in Bloomberg, booking systems and trading protocols
• Advanced analytical and numerical competency
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Required licensing and registrations as applicable to the role and jurisdiction

Education

• Bachelor's degree / University degree or equivalent experience; degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline preferred
• CFA a plus

Citi is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Job Family Group:

Institutional Trading

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Trading

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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