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Job opening: Trading Assistant

This is an excellent opportunity to start your career in the dynamic world of finance. For this role we are looking for someone who has an academic degree, is structured with great communication skills and significant interest in financial markets. In this role you will not only assist the traders in the Arbitrage team, but also be the key link between our traders and our mid office department.

Who we are

Optiver is an international and innovative proprietary trading firm. We deal in highly-automated electronic market making and arbitrage activities. With offices in Amsterdam, Chicago and Sydney, employing around 600 talented individuals from over 30 nationalities, we trade in more than 20 countries, across 5 continents, 24 hours a day.

Our culture is one of our most valuable assets: result-driven, open and informal, team-based, ambitious and exceedingly flexible, whilst striving for professionalism within all our departments.

What you’ll do

As a Trader Assistant within Optiver you will be working in a highly competitive and fast changing environment. You will be the key link between our traders and our mid office department. Your daily tasks will exist of assisting the traders in the Arbitrage team, data management, checking transactions/ subscriptions and import data. Besides the daily tasks you want to improve and will take initiative to critically look at the current processes and streamline where necessary.

What you’ll need

Academic Degree;A strong affinity with financial markets;A numbers-orientated character;Advanced knowledge of Excel and experience with VBA;Excellent numerical and analytical skills;Ability to work in an accurate and structured way in order to solve problems;Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

What you’ll get

Excellent remuneration, great profit sharing, full first-class home-work travel compensation, training opportunities, relocation package, discounts on health insurance, breakfast and lunch facilities, Friday-afternoon drinks and – yes - even in-house chair massages.

We consider this position to be a starting point for a motivated talent who wants to develop into other departments within Optiver.

Interested?

Apply directly via this link. Please provide us with a CV and letter of motivation in English. Applications without a letter of motivation will not be reviewed. For more information, have a look at our website, www.optiver.com or contact Kim Ruijer (Trading Recruiter) on +31 (0)20 708 7000.

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