Dealer / Sales Trader
This is an opportunity to play a significant role in a dynamic investment team within a growing business.
Summary about this job
Stockbroking & Trading
Company: Cadence Asset Management
Location: Sydney
Work type: Full Time
Salary: n\a
Phone: +61-7-2000-3003
Fax: +61-7-1178-6693
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Detail information about job Dealer / Sales Trader. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Top performing boutique equities Fund Manager
- CBD
- Great team & culture
About the business
Cadence Asset Management is a top performing boutique equities Fund Manager based in Sydney, Australia. Cadence has experienced strong growth since its inception in 2003 and is looking for a high calibre investment professional to assist with its International investments on a long/short basis (open mandate). This is an opportunity to play a significant role in a dynamic investment team within a growing business.
The Cadence Capital investment process uses a combination of fundamental and technical research. The Dealer / Sales Trader will benefit from the team's fundamental and technical research and as such will need to be conversant with all aspects of fundamental and technical equities research.
About the role
- Executing buy, sell and short sell orders for the Cadence Capital Funds
- Synthesizing external and internal research to cultivate a list of stocks that meet the Cadence Capital Criteria
- Closely monitoring and developing a trading strategy for the short-listed stocks that meet the Cadence Criteria
- Developing screens to monitor Change in Substantial notices, New Highs and Lows, change in earnings for Broker recommendations, buy back and percentage buy back screens
- Developing and running local and international screens to capture potential long and short lists of domestic and international stocks that meet the Cadence Capital criteria
- Monitoring and liaising with brokers to track price and volume variance in order execution
Benefits and perks
Remuneration will be based on a base wage as well as bonuses based on generating above market returns.
Skills and experience
- have a successful history of order execution or dealing/ trading in Australian and/or International equities,
- have excellent attention to detail and a good understanding of equities,
- be self-motivated and able to operate autonomously as well as being able to operate in our tight knit team
- be hard working and ambitious,
- suit someone on either the 'buy' or 'sell' side looking to develop broader skills and ultimately assume responsibility for generating higher than market risk-adjusted returns.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
In your application, please detail why you think you would be a suitable person for the role of a Dealer / Sales Trader at Cadence Asset Management and detail your past employment experience.
You will also be required to provide answers to the questions below in your application.
- What experience do you have in order execution?
- What type of funds have you been executing orders for? Were the orders for small, mid or large companies?
- What size orders have you been traditionally executing?
- How did you get your role executing orders?
- How many years relevant experience do you have?
- If you had a substantial holding in a company to sell, how would you secure the best price?
- In your execution role have you had any proprietary trading experience taking balance sheet risk?
- Have you used a balance sheet or your own funds to take risk investing / trading equities? What type of equities? Australian, global, small, mid or large caps?
- Have you had any experience using equities research in your trading approach? If so, what types of research and specific investment styles?
- What screens, systems, technology platforms have you had experience with for a sales / trading role?
- What are the market related, technical or fundamental factors you are looking for when searching for trading opportunities?
- What is your best trading idea now, long or short? Why?