Interest Rate Swap Trader in Amsterdam

Your work environment

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Your role

You will be part of the Developed Markets linear IRD trading team that actively makes markets in different IRD products and in different DM currencies to both corporate and institutional customers. You will be managing the different books and contributing to the further build-out of our DM IRD franchise.

The DM IRD trading desk is part of the bigger Rates trading team at ING, which also includes other Rates trading teams both in Amsterdam (EM IRD, inflation and EGB) and in the CEE region.

Your key responsibilities

Servicing sales/customers

• Assure accurate and swift pricing service
• Build good relationships with sales, internal and external customers in order to increase the franchise

Managing market risks

• Analyse trading books and adjust positions while optimizing revenue and staying within limits at all time
• Maintain a high focus on the different DM IRD markets and generate trade ideas

Contributing to the build-up of the DM IRD desk

• Cooperate with internal quant teams to build/improve pricing tools
• Bring up ideas to automate the sales-trading workflow
• Use data analysis to improve trading risk management but also pricing service

Who we are looking for?

A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As a DM IRD trader you will also need:

• A master degree in Finance and/or Economics
• Excellent analytical skills and relevant coding experience
• At least four years of relevant DM IRD trading experience
• An excellent trading track record
• To be fluent in English
• To be a genuine team player and a clear and transparent communicator

We offer you  

A clear purpose, a unique offer and a range of flexible compensation and other benefits:

• A 40-hour working week
• Job grade 11/12
• A dynamic international working environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavours (Dealing room based in Amsterdam)
• A progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention

Furthermore, within the Rates trading department, you can count on a range of opportunities to invest in your personal and professional growth with:

• The possibility to participate in courses and trainings
• Challenging projects with quants and colleagues from sales and trading
• The possibility to grow in the trading organization