Associate Trader/Trader, Equity

Associate Trader

This associate will be part of the trading team located in Seattle with a specific focus on America's Equity Markets, and potential for rotation staffing to cover Asia-Pacific and EMEA Equity Markets as needed. This associate will be a key member of a team responsible for providing global equity trading for the Russell Funds, Trading Clients, Transition Management Clients and Investment Managers.

Your core responsibilities:

• Trading: Collaborate with equity trading team to execute a broad array of trading strategies, from global trading mandates to more focused mandates.
• Strategy development and implementation of trading: Interact with senior members of the team using risk models, optimization systems, and other trading analytic systems. Research trading costs associated with various strategies and implement the most cost-effective strategy.
• Risk Management and Best Practices: Liaise with numerous clients, investment managers/portfolio managers and execute program and/or single order transactions. Continue to learn and implement the established best practices to ensure trading strategies conform to Russell's best execution guidelines. Interface with various systems and operate multiple market facing execution technologies.

Your expertise:

• Bachelor's degree in finance or a related area.
• 1-2+ years of trading experience in the brokerage/trading industry. Trading knowledge of Domestic markets with knowledge of International Equity Markets considered a plus.
• Experience with Equity OMS and Trading EMS a plus.
• Experience trading live in markets using execution tools, including DMA, Algorithmic Trading.
• Ability to understand and work with multiple complex trading system configurations.
• Expected to study and receive SIE and Series 7, 55, 66 licenses.
• Advanced degree or interest in studying to become a CFA charterholder are considered a plus.
• Excellent communication skills.
• High degree of focus, discipline and work ethic.
• Detailed oriented & excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability and willingness to function in a dynamic, fast-paced, technological environment with highly specified instructions.
• Driven self starter looking to take on new responsibilities in a challenging environment.

This role is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Russell Investments is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all associates and employment applicants regardless of race, religion, ancestry, creed, color, gender (including gender identity which refers to a person's actual or perceived sex, and includes self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not different from that traditionally associated with a person's biological sex), age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, military status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, past or present unemployment status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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