Fixed Income Dealer

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department & Role

The Investment Execution function supports all public market asset classes, as the essential link between fund management decisions and realising market positions. The function advises fund managers on all FX, Fixed Income, Equity and Derivative Instruments and general market conditions to deliver the best outcome for funds and clients.

Investment Execution contributes to the Aberdeen vision of building a world class investment firm by providing a best-in-class enabling function, being perceived both internally and externally, as a value add, alpha generating component of the investment process through efficient and optimal  execution. The  dealing  desk  is  centralised  and  adopts  a  24hr  follow  the  sun  model with dealers located across all major regions.

As a Fixed Income Dealer within our centralized global dealing desk, you will play a pivotal role in executing trades across the Fixed Income markets in EMEA. You will act as a strategic partner to fund managers, providing market insights, execution strategies, and ensuring best execution across all trades. This role is integral to delivering alpha through efficient execution and maintaining our reputation as an integral of the investment process. This is a fixed term contract through to end of September 2026.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute Fixed income trades across Investment Grade, High yield, Government and Futures, ensuring optimal execution
• Provide real-time market colour and strategic execution advice to investment teams, leveraging deep understanding of market dynamics.
• Execute trades in a timely, efficient, and skilful manner demonstrating best outcomes for client throughout the process.
• Ensure accurate records on all dealing and related aspects of the job for internal, as well as regulatory, requirements.
• Target zero error rate and always ensure adherence to FCA/Company policies and procedures.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships within Investment Execution, the
  Investment teams, and with our external counterparties.
• Monitor trading volumes and performance with counterparties and provide qualitative feedback at regular intervals for both formal and informal broker reviews.
• Understand and operate in line with relevant regulatory frameworks and Company procedures.
• Always Work within the compliance and risk framework, reporting risks, errors,
  events, and issues to Global Head of Investment Execution, following through until resolution or mitigation.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Have a good knowledge of Aberdeen trading processes.
• Have thorough knowledge of Aberdeen systems and platforms, including Charles
  River, FXALL, Bloomberg, MarketAxess, Tradeweb, Neptune.
• Proven experience in Fixed Income dealing within a buy-side or sell side institution.
• Strong understanding of market microstructure, liquidity dynamics and execution venues.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Reliable team player with experience working both independently and in a global
  team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Sound attention to detail, judgment, and decision-making ability.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong interest in keeping abreast of market and industry events.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.