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**VP Rates Trader - London:** Oversee trading books, generate revenues, manage risks, and coordinate with stakeholders. Must have advanced analytical skills, strong interpersonal skills, and knowledge of Bloomberg and booking systems. Bachelor's degree required, master's preferred. This certified role requires assessment of honesty, integrity, financial soundness, competence, and capability. Full-time, remote option available.
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- London
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- United Kingdom
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Full Job Description
Rates Trader - London - Vice President
Job Req Id:
26984550
Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom, , Remote
Job Type:
Remote
Posted:
Aug. 20, 2026
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Job Overview
The Trader is a senior level position responsible for overseeing a trading book and managing book risk, in coordination with the Trading team. The overall objective of this role is to ensure book trades deliver on budgeted revenues, and to coordinate with key stakeholders to develop the trading franchise.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee a trading book and generate revenues and manage risk for the respective business
- Coordinate with Sales, Research, CMand and other organizations across Markets and Securities Services and the broader business
- Trade a book and deliver on budgeted revenues and manage book risk
- Establish and maintain key relationships to deliver trades to the desk
- Anticipate client demand in each respective product/market
- Coordinate with desk analysts as needed and with sales to develop the franchise
- Leading strong governance and controls:
- Work in close partnership with control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk, Audit, Finance in order to ensure appropriate governance and control infrastructure
- Build a culture of responsible finance, good governance and supervision, expense discipline and ethics
- Appropriately assess risk/reward of transactions when making business decisions; demonstrating proper consideration for the firms reputation.
- Be familiar with and adhere to Citis Code of Conduct and the Plan of Supervision for Global Markets and Securities Services
- Adhere to all policies and procedures as defined by your role which will be communicated to you
- Obtain and maintain all registrations/licenses which are required for your role, within the appropriate timeframe
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Knowledge of respective products and clients
- Required licensing and registrations as applicable
- Advance analytical and numerical competency
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Effective interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to analyze and pitch situations and determine suitable counterparties
- Knowledge of Bloomberg, booking systems, trading protocol, closing technicalities
Education:
- Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Masters degree preferred
Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to theFCA and PRACertification Regime.
The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime whichcame intoeffect on 7 March 2016.
Under the Certification Regime, CitiUK regulatedentities(Citi entities)must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.
Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:
Honesty, integrity and reputation
Financial soundness
Competence and capability
In order tocomply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.
This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks,regulatedreference checks, credit checks and other backgroundscreeningchecks.
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Job Family Group:
Institutional Trading------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:
Trading------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:
Full time------------------------------------------------------
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