Markets Salesperson

The day is the market's day: prices, positions, and clients who need to hedge an exposure or take a view before something moves. The product is risk transfer, so the conversation is about what a client is exposed to and what a hedge would and would not do, at speed and usually on the phone.

Graduate markets streams, internal moves from corporate banking or treasury, and lateral hires with a product following.

These are the shapes the round takes, not a question bank — banks phrase them differently and the wording is never the point.

What the panel is listening for. Composure and a changeable mind: a view held with reasons, revised when the reasons change, and expressed fast enough to be useful in a moving market.

A hedge is a credit exposure with the sign reversed — the bank is on risk to the client's ability to pay if the trade goes against them, which is why markets sales has a credit approval behind it.

That is the general case as well as this one. A bank's technology is not ordinary technology and its finance is not ordinary finance, and the second and third lines of defence — risk, compliance, financial crime, model validation and internal audit — recruit heavily out of the functions, taking the people who can already read a business. The case drills are free and are the cheapest way to build that, whichever column you sit in.