Job Description:
Job Title: Head of Core EGB Trading
Corporate Title: Managing Director
Location: Paris
Company Overview
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Role Description:
This job is responsible for managing risk and developing trading activities with limited direction from senior staff. Key responsibilities include proactively maintaining and building client relationships, supporting clients with buying and selling financial products, and implementing trading strategies to achieve revenue goals. Job expectations include having in-depth knowledge of risk management, hedging, and trading strategies as well as market characteristics.
Responsibilities:
Partners with global sales teams to help the bank's clients execute trading activities, while sharing knowledge of the current market environment
Performs trading activities in compliance with federal regulations, industry standards, and other requirements and ensures trading orders are executed with the highest degree of accuracy and time efficiency
Assigns accounts to pre-defined trading models and administers trades based on product guidelines
Operates as a market maker, buying and selling financial instruments in accordance with established trading strategies and risk parameters
Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Breaks down barriers to create a more inclusive environment that supports company Great Place to Work goals.
Manager of Process & Data: Challenges end-to-end process efficiency and effectiveness, champion data driven decision-making and removes obstacles to optimize operations.
Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Contributes to enterprise strategy and influence messaging to connect team contributions to business purpose, results, and success.
Risk Manager: Inspects and challenges risk controls, governance and culture to ensure the timely identification, escalation, debate and remediation of risk across the organization.
People Manager & Coach: Coaches to sustain and elevates organizational performance while differentiating to ensure pay for performance.
Financial Steward: Efficiently allocates and manages resources across the organization to drive short and long term profitability.
Enterprise Talent Leader: Inspects and manages the health of the bench to ensure succession for the organization, while supporting enterprise talent needs.
Driver of Business Outcomes: Mobilizes organizational resources to deliver the full range of the bank’s capabilities to meet client needs and to gain competitive advantage.
Skills:
Data and Trend Analysis
Trade Monitoring
Trading
Trading Strategy
Trading and Investment Analysis
Causation Analysis
Client Management
Financial Forecasting and Modeling
Research Analysis
Risk Management
Mentoring
Oral Communications
Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines
Regulatory Compliance
Risk Analytics
Benefits of working at Bank of America – France
Competitive retirement plan in addition to State plans
Mandatory Medical Plan provided by the bank as a top-up to Social Security health benefits for you and your family.
Employees and family members can receive free health advice 24/7 through a range of English and French speaking medical providers
Life and disability insurance
Time Savings Account (‘CET’) to save some of your leave days, cash them out or use them later
Reimbursement of 50% of your commuter pass
Nursery scheme for children under age 3
Works council benefits
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support and help for everyday matters
Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering with local charities
Opportunity to receive free entry to arts exhibitions sponsored by Bank of America in Paris
Bank of America
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender/sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants, family status or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.
We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.