Vice President - Multi-Asset Derivatives Trading
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About the Role
ADIC seeks a Senior Execution Trader (VP) to join the Public Markets Execution Trading team, focusing on execution across global macro markets with emphasis on derivatives in interest rate, FX, and synthetic credit instruments.
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Responsibilities
- Lead execution on synthetic credit instruments including CDS, CDX, iTraxx, credit index options, and total return swaps
- Work with portfolio managers to design execution strategy for interest rate and FX markets with focus on options trading
- Support in house multi asset overlay function by executing tactical and strategic asset allocation decisions
- Provide execution support for long only public market portfolios, external hedge fund exposures, and hedging programs
- Assess optimal implementation routes across futures, swaps, forwards, and options
- Monitor market liquidity, bid offer conditions, dealer balance sheet constraints, clearing costs, and basis relationships
- Provide timely market color on global rates, credit, FX, liquidity, funding, and macro conditions
Requirements
- Approximately 7 10 years of relevant experience at an asset manager, hedge fund, sovereign wealth fund, pension fund, bank trading desk, or multi asset investment platform
- Strong hands on experience executing across global markets with focus on derivatives and options trading
- Experience working with portfolio managers, asset allocation teams, risk teams, treasury teams, operations, and external counterparties
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Role Overview
- ADIC is seeking a Senior Execution Trader (VP) to join the Public Markets Execution Trading team.
- The role will primarily focus on execution across global macro market landscape, with particular emphasis on derivatives based implementation in interest rate and foreign exchange markets, and across synthetic credit instruments.
- The successful candidate will support trading activity across public market exposures and an in house multi asset overlay function.
Key Responsibilities Execution Trading
- Lead the execution on synthetic credit instruments, including CDS, CDX, iTraxx, credit index options, and total return swaps
- Work with portfolio managers to design the execution strategy for interest rate and FX markets, with a strong focus on options trading
- Support the in house multi asset overlay function by executing on tactical and strategic asset allocation decisions across liquid global markets as well as portfolio rebalancing activity
- Provide execution support for long only public market portfolios, external hedge fund exposures, and hedging programs
- Assess optimal implementation routes across futures, swaps, forwards, and options, with clear understanding of trade offs between liquidity, cost, funding, basis risk, margin usage, and operational complexity
- Monitor market liquidity, bid offer conditions, dealer balance sheet constraints, clearing costs, roll costs, convexity, carry, and basis relationships across derivative instruments
- Work closely with operations, legal, compliance, risk, and counterparties to ensure smooth execution, confirmation, settlement, collateral management, and post trade processing
- Ensure trades are executed in line with internal policies, risk limits, compliance requirements, and best execution standards
- Contribute to trade cost analysis, execution quality monitoring, counterparty performance assessment, and liquidity analysis
- Support the development of tools and dashboards for monitoring execution performance
- Help institutionalize trading processes as the fund's public markets platform continues to grow in complexity and sophistication
Market Intelligence and Advisory
- Provide timely market color on global rates, credit, FX, liquidity, funding, and macro conditions
- Maintain strong relationships with dealers, brokers, liquidity providers, execution platforms, clearing brokers, and financing counterparties
- Maintain strong understanding of ISDA, CSA, clearing, margin, collateral, and counterparty risk considerations
- Advise internal stakeholders on execution timing, market depth, liquidity windows, transaction costs, and potential implementation risks
- Monitor global DM and EM markets, including policy rates, yield curves, credit spreads, sovereign risk, currency pressures, and cross asset market dynamics
- Monitor funding stress, dealer balance sheet availability, cross currency basis, repo conditions, and derivative margin requirements
- Provide market color to senior management during volatile periods, including liquidity conditions, execution feasibility, hedging costs, and potential implementation risks
- Contribute to discussions on tactical asset allocation, hedging, portfolio construction, and macro risk management
- Where relevant, support portfolio management activities, including trade structuring, risk sizing, scenario analysis, and relative value assessment
Requirements Experience
- Approximately 7 10 years of relevant experience working at an asset manager, hedge fund, sovereign wealth fund, pension fund, bank trading desk, or multi asset investment platform
- Strong hands on experience executing across global markets with focus on derivatives and options trading
- Experience working with portfolio managers, asset allocation teams, risk teams, treasury teams, operations, and external counterparties
- Prior exposure to portfolio management or risk taking responsibilities would be a strong advantage
- Experience supporting dynamic asset allocation, overlay portfolios, hedging programs, or tactical macro strategies
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