Equity Options Trader

About the Role

Join our team as an Equity Trader and provide trading support to financial advisors by delivering an extraordinary quality service experience. Our trading team’s priority is to create a reliable support system for clients, enabling them to grow their practice. This role requires flexibility and adaptability to competing priorities. You will work in a call center environment, handling inbound calls from financial advisors, their assistants, and clients, as well as making outbound calls regarding trades and trade corrections.

Traders must understand multiple products, including their risks, fees, and differences, and be able to explain regulatory requirements and LPL Financial policies governing these products while ensuring compliance.

Responsibilities

• Assist financial advisors, money managers, and retail clients with order placement and trade inquiries.
• Resolve trade and settlement issues by collaborating with market centers and exchanges.
• Handle a high volume of inbound trading and service-related calls.

Requirements

• FINRA Series 7 & 63 or 66 licenses required.

Core Competencies

• Knowledge of equity and option markets.
• Thorough understanding of marketplace rules and regulations.
• Demonstrated high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent customer service skills with the ability to listen and communicate clearly and concisely.
• Ability to work productively in both small and large group settings.

Preferences

• 2+ years of trading desk experience preferred.
• FINRA Series 57 license preferred.
• Series 4 license preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Pay

Pay range: $29.71–$49.52/hour. Actual base salary varies based on factors including relevant skills, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.

Benefits

LPL offers a highly competitive Total Rewards package, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Benefits include 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, and volunteer time off.

About LPL Financial

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest-growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions. The firm services and custodies approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans.

LPL provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools, and practice management services, ensuring advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.