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Canaccord Genuity is seeking a highly driven individual to join our Trading team as a Junior Sales Trader. This role offers hands-on exposure across our specialist trading desks, working alongside senior sales traders to support client execution and idea generation. You will play a key role in strengthening client relationships, assisting with trade workflows, and helping to deliver best-in-class execution and service to our institutional clients in a fast-paced market environment.

Your role

* Analysing client and market data to help develop our execution offering and execute trades.

* Assist senior traders and sales in preparing market intelligence, stock‐level commentary, flow/trend analysis and trade ideas for clients.

* Shadowing senior members of the team to develop a deeper understanding of the market and our client’s needs.

* Learn and understand all aspects of the trade lifecycle, and manage order entry, confirmations and allocations.

* Develop and maintain appropriate client, sector, industry and stock market structure knowledge. Taking responsibility to attend specialist industry courses/seminars and relevant client events and pitches.

* Develop relationships with other CGL departments e.g Research and Sales both domestic and globally.

* Be highly comfortable working under pressure, managing multiple tasks and tight deadlines, with strong attention to detail.

Our ideal candidate

* Degree educated with a minimum 2:1.

* A strong interest in trading the financial markets.

* Previous internships or work experience in trading would be desirable but is not essential

* Excellent Excel, PowerPoint and Word Skills.

* Good understanding of relevant market data across the division including but not limited to Bloomberg and Fidessa would be desirable but is not essential.

* Critical and independent thinker/ analytical/ logical and reasoned.

* Excellent attention to detail.

* Excellent written & spoken English.

* Excellent mental arithmetic

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