Job Description:

Job information Office Junior Apprenticeship from the Company Close Brothers Group, this latest Office Junior Apprenticeship job vacancy is located in the city London located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Office field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

An opportunity has arisen for multiple individuals who hold a passion for financial markets, looking to start their career at an established and well respected market maker Winterflood.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated individual with a good understanding of the dynamics affecting the financial market and their potential impact on fiscal products.

During this Office Junior “apprenticeship” you will gain exposure to a variety of different divisions during your training under the supervision of experienced personnel across the Front, Middle and Back Office, thus your will gain an excellent insight into reading and responding to the Market and the supporting functions.

As well as having a sound understanding of the markets, the successful candidate will have strong numeracy and analytical skills combined with excellent communication skills; successful candidates will enjoy working in a high-pressured, fast-moving environment, liaising with a wide variety of stakeholders and clients.

Above all, you will need to be honest and trustworthy, with a sound understanding, respect and commitment to our obligation to maintain the stability and fairness of Financial Markets, and the remit of compliance and governance parameters outlined both by the Company and our Regulators.

It is expected that after this apprenticeship will last on average 2-3 years, with successful candidates being placed in a permanent role within the business in either the Front Middle or Back Office.

The Role

Successful applicants will participate in rotations across the Front, Middle and Back Office. Winterflood will support all successful applicants with access to industry training such as formal CISI Financial Regulation and Securities exams.

The planned start of the role will be August 2024

Duties will include:

• Provide general day to day support to senior personnel and their designated desk/business divisions
• Develop and understanding of financial markets, products and services through a variety of methods
• Participate in the shadowing established Market Makers on the trading floor;
• Completion of mandatory cyclical compliance training.
• Retain compliance with legal requirements, industrial regulations, organizational policies and professional codes
• Assisting in managing client relationships and day-to-day customer support
• Assist in producing supporting client presentations for meetings where necessary
• Gather and analyse management information including relevant research
• Supporting business development and client on-boarding
• Monitor and support critical trading workflows, reviewing alerts
• Providing real-time support for Market Makers and Sales Traders
• Reporting & reconciliation of key trading controls
• Ensuring we meet our Market Making obligations & reporting
• Helping to manage & maintain business critical static data information
• Build an understanding of Settlements & Corporate Actions (on specific events)
• Develop a working relationship with Compliance and Risk

Requirements

• Availability to start a full time role from August 2024
• Excellent academic record; educated to A-Level and upwards
• Demonstrable interest in Financial Markets
• Strong analytical / mathematical skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Quick learner, with ability to question and challenge
• Ability to multi-task, sometimes under pressure
• Ability to plan and prioritize workload
• Self-starter, initiative and motivated to achieve end goals
• Team player, working in close knit environment

Benefits

Salary - competitive

• Discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional well-being day
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Pension scheme up to 10% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private health care via BUPA
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Variety of travel to work schemes

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.

To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.

The Company

Winterflood Securities is a leading market maker committed to providing liquidity and flexible execution services to retail brokers, asset managers and institutional investors.

Winterflood's strengths are a combination of traditional trading values and the performance of our own cutting edge technology. Our experienced team of traders helps clients achieve high quality execution in over 15,000 tradable instruments including UK, European and North American Equities together with Investment Trusts, Exchange Traded Products, Fixed Income, Structured Products and Funds. Founded in 1988, Winterflood has gone from being a niche market maker in the UK Small Cap market, to a mature, diverse and major liquidity provider across multiple asset classes in the UK and European markets.

Winterflood is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Winterflood Securities is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Close Brothers Group plc, a specialist financial services group which makes loans, takes deposits, trades securities and provides advice and investment management solutions to a wide range of clients. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250.

InclusionThe Benefits

Private medical

Discounted health checks

Stakeholder pension contribution

Gym discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Save As You Earn scheme

Purchase additional holiday

Charity & Sustainable work

At Close Brothers, we are dedicated to helping the charities that matter most to our employees. Our donations continue to increase year on year thanks to our fundraising efforts and matched giving schemes to our employees' favourite charities. We continue to seek out new ways to give as a group and to help employees who give their valuable time and money to causes close to them.

To find out more detail please follow the link below:

https://www.closebrothers.com/charity.

Sustainability is fundamental to our purpose, and we recognise that to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive over the long term, we also have a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business, employees and customers, now and into the future.

To find out more detail please follow the link below:

https://www.closebrothers.com/sustainability.

Keywords : London jobs

Closed Date : 2024-12-20