Junior Tech & Execution Graduate

About the role

This graduate opportunity sits at the intersection of technology and trading within the ICAP Relative Value (ICRV) Fixed Income execution team. It is designed for a technology-driven analyst who wants to build and own the robust tools and data capabilities that power the desk, while gaining first-hand exposure to trade execution.

Responsibilities

• Technology Design, build, and maintain robust Excel-based applications that power the desk’s pricing, valuation, and risk management, utilizing advanced formulas, data models, and VBA.
• Architect reproducible workflows to ingest, clean, and validate market and trade data, ensuring the desk has access to accurate, real-time analytics for decision-making.
• Create and maintain a library of BPMN diagrams to visualise and document desk workflows, helping to map out current trading processes and new technical developments.
• Analyse daily workflows to identify manual inefficiencies (e.g., in market reporting or data entry) and build automated tools to speed up these processes.
• Assist in integrating desk-specific tools with the team’s core trading systems, helping to maintain data feeds, spec connections, and test feature changes.
• Trade Execution
• Ensure timely input of trades into trading systems.
• Resolve any trade queries received internally or externally and ensure any trade discrepancies are resolved in a timely manner.
• Identify trade opportunities and calculate strategies.
• Keep trade records up to date.
• Give live quotes to traders through the messaging systems.
• Monitor markets and follow financial news and developments.
• Liaise with clients, via telephone and face to face, to provide a reliable and efficient broking service.

Requirements

• Educated to a degree level – ideally with a technology based or highly numerical/analytical degree, with elements of finance.
• Demonstrable passion for data with the ability to interpret complex quantitative information and explain it to non-technical audiences.
• Software development skills – any programming language, any environment; ability to produce scripts, macros, etc valuable.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data modelling; VBA essential).
• Foundational understanding of global financial markets and fixed income concepts (government bonds, interest rate products; equity exposure beneficial).
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication; able to document processes and collaborate within a small, high performing team.
• Excellent attention to detail, disciplined approach to data validation, and commitment to operational risk controls.
• Comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-paced environment; calm under pressure.

Qualifications

• Additional language skills (verbal and written).
• Solid understanding in statistics.
• Prior experience (internships or projects) supporting front office trading desks or execution workflows.
• Exposure to Python and/VBA is beneficial; SQL familiarity helpful.
• R experience is also a plus.
• Solid understanding of AI models provided by marque brands.

Skills

• Software development skills – any programming language, any environment; ability to produce scripts, macros, etc valuable.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data modelling; VBA essential).
• Foundational understanding of global financial markets and fixed income concepts (government bonds, interest rate products; equity exposure beneficial).
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication; able to document processes and collaborate within a small, high performing team.
• Excellent attention to detail, disciplined approach to data validation, and commitment to operational risk controls.
• Comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-paced environment; calm under pressure.

Benefits

Along with a competitive salary, you’ll have the opportunity to earn a performance bonus aligned with business and personal results. Employees in this position are eligible for quarterly performance bonuses based on achievement of key performance.

Pay

$65,000 - $70,000 Annual Salary

Schedule

On site in Florida, 5 days in-office