Location
Amsterdam; Fulltime

Your role is to build and maintain relations with intermediates and trade directly over the phone with various counterparties. If you are strong result driven, an excellent network builder and entrepreneurial you might be the perfect match for our wholesale trader position. 

Who we are

Optiver is a rapidly growing proprietary trading firm, with offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. We focus on electronic market making and arbitrage activities in a wide variety of products including derivatives, stocks and bonds.  We trade with our own money and at our own risk.

Our business covers 5 continents, 20 countries and each of the world’s major economic time zones. With 600 employees worldwide, our culture is one of our most valuable resources: we are young at heart, strongly results-driven, open and informal, ambitious and exceedingly flexible.

What you’ll do

As a Wholesale Trader you will be the key link between our screen traders and external trading relations. You will be responsible for the over-the-phone block trading. The team consists of experienced and involved market experts who specialize in providing fast and efficient markets in competitive volumes to professional counterparties worldwide.

Finding and maintaining relationships with all kinds of trading counterparties are key to this job. You will have to travel through Europe frequently in order to meet with counterparties and put Optiver on everyone's radar as an important trading partner.

Working as a wholesale trader combines the fun and intensity of trading with the challenges of communication and relationship management. To become a wholesale trader you will need the personality, drive and ambition to maintain key international relationships, manage large portfolios, make fast decisions and spot opportunities.

What you’ll need

• Academic Degree
• 0-2 years working experience, preferably in financial markets;
• Excellent social and communication skills;
• Strong numerical skills;
• An entrepreneurial spirit and a talent for growing business in new directions;
• An eye for accuracy, solve problems and make decisions under pressure;
• Willingness to travel frequently within Europe;
• Fluency in English (fluency in French, Italian, German or Spanish is a preference);
• Having an existing network is a preference;
• N.B. Once you’ve applied for the Wholesale Trader position, you will be required to take one numerical test to measure your mathematical skills.

What you’ll get

At Optiver, we understand that our staff is our most important asset. In addition, today's skills shortage means attracting and retaining the best employees is more important than ever. As a result, we provide a highly attractive compensation package to ensure that we can employ and hold on to the very best people.

Just imagine: 30 days’ holiday, full first class home-work travel compensation, excellent remuneration and a bonus structure, training opportunities, relocation packages, discounts on health insurance, breakfast and lunch facilities, Friday-afternoon drinks and – yes - even in-house chair massages. Add the chance to work in the US or Australia if you want, and you’ve got to be tempted!

Interested?

Apply directly via the Solliciteer Online button. Please provide us with a CV and letter of motivation in English. Applications without letter of motivation will not be reviewed. For more information contact Femke Huijbers on +31 (0)20 708 7000.

Acquisition further to this advertisement is not appreciated