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Join our highly entrepreneurial and passionate Index and Forward Trading team in Hong Kong. You’ll operate alongside experienced traders in a fast paced environment where you will drive trading ideas, execute strategies, and directly contribute to desk profitability from day one.

At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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Working closely with our senior traders, you will provide support on trading a broad range of listed and OTC delta one products including equities, ETFs, index and dividend futures, forwards, and equity swaps. Working within a collaborative team of event, corporate actions, and index traders, you will help deploy and manage principal trading strategies with a focus on the China market.

In this role, you will price, trade, and optimise delta one exposures, while exploring and executing new trading opportunities across products, markets, and strategies. Your work will span index arbitrage, corporate actions/event driven trading, and other delta one strategies, including identifying inefficiencies, running analysis and pitching actionable ideas. You will also interact closely with technology and risk partners to utilise advanced trading systems and risk tools to backtest these strategies by analysing historical trading signals, building and interpreting backtesting results, and identifying opportunities to enhance algorithmic models.

What you offer

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• Demonstrated understanding of China equity markets
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including sound knowledge of mathematics and statistics
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python/R/C++
• Clear communicator with fluency in English and an effective team player (additional Mandarin skills will be an advantage)
• Relevant experience pricing and trading delta one products and strategies and/or quantitative research will be an advantage (fresh graduates with similar internship experience are welcome).

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

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At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day and 5 additional paid Flexi-Leave days per year
• 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Option to purchase additional annual leave
• Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including comprehensive medical and life insurance cover and additional flexible wellbeing credits and access to the Rental Reimbursement Program
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Commodities and Global Markets

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Commodities and Global Markets is a global business offering capital and financing, risk management, market access, physical execution and logistics solutions to its diverse client base across Commodities, Financial Markets and Asset Finance.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.