Trading Solutions Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for trading solutions, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for trading and market knowledge, investment services, technical support and assistance to Schwab’s Active Trading clients.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Applies risk analysis skills to pre-screen deals and perform initial risk assessment in coordination with colleagues
• Fully follows the bank's code of conduct and all applicable laws, regulations and policies
• Experience conducting analysis for financing/structuring deals
• Experience looking for origination opportunities
• Multi-asset experience would be an advantage
• Engage and effectively manage stakeholders
• Willingness to step forward to lead as needed
• Treasury workflow knowledge around Forex, Money Markets

In response to your job posting for trading solutions, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for sales support for trading products and services such as StreetSmart Edge, Edge in the Cloud, Mobile, and StreetSmart.com.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Understands vanilla and complex structured options and can demonstrate implementation of analytical models to provide valuation and risk for these type of trades
• Understands market data, including price, volatility and correlation data and how it is used to value and risk vanilla and complex structured options
• Understands market risk, in particular option greeks, and how they are used and applied in a trading business
• Understands VaR and PaR and their importance in managing risk in a trading business
• Can demonstrate high quality design and development to large distributed platforms applying modern architectural best practice
• Can demonstrate development within a devops environment and explain the approach taken and how it was appropriate to that situation
• Sound knowledge of a large part of the instruments/derivatives treated in capital markets
• Sound knowledge of financial markets and clients globally

In response to your job posting for trading solutions, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for support for standard trading related tasks: delta hedging, barrier flagging, option execution, roll of products, among others.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Strong communication and presentations skills adaptable to different audience levels , C level, Treasury heads, I.T managers, Project Managers, I.T personnel
• Techno Functional skills and a track record of successfully delivering large, multi-streamed projects through the full project cycle within specified timescales and budget
• Strong systems integration experience with Knowledge of technologies such as Webservices - SOAP/REST
• Able to install software on Unix platforms such as Solaris, Linux etc
• Understanding of SQL, FIX messaging and Web Services
• Completes development work within time, budget and standards
• Able to cater to front, middle and back office requirements through a sound understanding of energy trading lifecycle
• Champions Agile and DevOps delivery methodology

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the trading solutions position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for subject matter expertise and direction as it relates to interpretation and understanding of trading, regulatory and trading venue rules.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Full familiarity with the energy trading application suite – off the shelf and custom build
• Strong relationship with product owner(s) aided by strong domain experience and expertise
• Supports the assessment of energy trading system requirements, identifying and addressing any potential issues prior to implementation
• Creates and updates application documentation
• Follows the procedures for reporting on the progress of systems development projects, taking action to deal with exceptions, problems and unforeseen events in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with team members
• Understands financial and physical commodity trading and can demonstrate implementation of software solutions to support this type of business
• Understands derivative trading and can demonstrate implementation of software solutions to support this type of business

I am excited to be applying for the position of trading solutions. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for subject matter expertise and direction as it relates to interpretation and understanding of trading, regulatory and exchange rules.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Available for travelling at least once per month
• Enterprise software sales experience within the Capital Markets or Energy industries
• Familiarity with asset manager and hedge fund trading styles, and execution requirements
• Basic knowledge of listed derivatives and synthetic equity products would be beneficial
• Excellent relationship, communication & organizational skills
• Independent and motivated to succeed in fast-paced brokerage & institutional trading environment
• Understanding of Institutional Investors, in particular Asset Managers and Hedge Funds
• Fluent English is mandatory, Fluent Cantonese and Mandarin is preferred