Inflation / Bonds Trader

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 the supporting trader helping to manage the inflation derivative book. Business is done with both corporate and institutional customers and in various inflation indices. Next to managing the inflation risks, you will be contributing to the further build-out of our inflation derivative franchise.

The inflation derivative trading desk is part of the bigger Rates trading team at ING, which also includes trading teams in Amsterdam, the CEE region, NY and Asia.

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 inflation markets and generate trade ideas

Contributing to the build-up of the inflation desk

• Cooperate with internal quant teams to build/improve pricing tools
• Further expand the mandate and unlock new inflation products and markets

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 junior Inflation derivative trader you will also need:

• a master’s degree in finance and/or Economics
• to be fluent in English
• relevant inflation / rates derivatives trading experience
• very good coding (Python, VBA, Q) & Excel skills
• excellent attention to detail,
• strong desire to learn, explore, and understand financial markets
• the ability to take decisions under pressure and maintain the highest level of accuracy in performing the relevant tasks
• to have a proactive behaviour with perpetual energy and drive to improve performance
• to be an effective team player with good interpersonal and communication skills

We offer you 

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

• personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realise your ambitions
• an informal, dynamic environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavours
• 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