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Cross Asset Solutions Sales Assistant part of the UK Equity Solutions Sales and Cross Asset Distribution desk. The individual will take on several varied tasks involved with many aspects of the Equity Solutions and Cross Asset Distribution activity, mostly to do with equity derivatives and structured products.
The individual will be exposed to the entire structuring and manufacturing chain, and is also likely to gain exposure to other front office desks within the bank (other sales desk, trading and structuring)
Key responsibilities
- Take on sales assistant responsibilities on the UK Equity Solutions Sales and Cross Asset Distribution desk in London
- Support senior staff on daily tasks including:
- Indicative pricing of equity derivatives products (OTC, notes, warrants) and fixed Income products (CLN, Callable etc.)
- Marketing effort toward clients, presentations and products deck;
- Helping with the desk day-to-day activities (internal follow-up on price requests, monitoring of clients activities etc.)
- Contribute to the on-going improvement of the desk processes: maintenance and enhancement of existing desk spreadsheet and macro.
- Help with the processing of trades for the desk including involvement with internal stakeholders (e.g. trading, structuring, legal, middle office, back office)
- Help to produce report for the desk (hit ratio, internal report etc.)
- Report to the head of sales desk regularly on specific issues.
- Actively participate in sales meetings with the structuring & trading teams to exchange ideas and improve processes
Application criteria
Minimum level of study
- Bachelor Degree/BSc Degree or equivalent
Soft skills
- A desire to learn about financial derivatives and how financial markets work
- An ability to work within a sales team
- Motivated
- Intellectually curious
- Good communicator
- Creative
- Team Oriented
- Entrepreneurial mind set
- Keen on learning and adaptable
IT tools
- A good knowledge of Excel: aptitude to learn the basics of Python would be an advantage.
- Mathematically proficient
About us
Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022). 8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.
Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade. The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.
