About The Position
The Corporate Sales & Structuring group is a team within Trading Products Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) responsible for originating and executing hedging and financing transactions for BMO’s corporate and commercial clients. Working closely with investment, corporate and commercial banking, the team serves as product experts with a coverage universe including foreign exchange, interest rate and equity derivatives, structured finance, equity linked securities and commodities. Reporting directly to the Director & Head, Canadian Commercial FX Sales, this position is a client facing role, responsible for quoting, executing and designing/presenting foreign exchange risk management solution transactions for mid/large-sized commercial entities across Canada. The candidate contributes to the overall profitability of the Foreign Exchange Group through the maintenance of strong relationships with commercial clients, internal partners and by ensuring proactive engagement within the client segment.
Requirements
- An undergraduate degree with outstanding academic achievement
- Specific academic coursework in finance, economics, math, engineering or accounting
- Strong understanding of, and keen interest in, the operation of the financial markets
- Relevant experience within financial markets in a client facing role is preferred
- Familiarity with basic derivatives including options and swaps
- Strong interpersonal skills to work with team members, other groups, and clients. Need to be personable, confident, credible.
- Highly developed professional written and oral communication skills with a proactive mindset
- Excellent analytical skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Expertise in financial computer applications and database management tools including MS Excel.
- Strong proficiency in other Microsoft Office products
- Ability to be creative, insightful and resourceful in performance of duties.
- Ability to function in a demanding team environment, multi-task under what can be short timelines, and manage multiple projects and requests in an organized manner
- Excellent capability to independently function as part of a team through self-motivation.
- Fluent in French and English
Nice To Haves
- Programming ability in VBA desired but not required
Responsibilities
- Provide pricing of foreign exchange currencies to Bank of Montreal commercial client segment
- Quote & execute spot, forward, swap & options trades.
- Proactively engage commercial banking clients with FX trade ideas & risk management solutions.
- Utilize data analysis skillset & internal relationships to identify new client opportunities.
- Provide demos of Online Banking for Business (OLBB) to clients and troubleshoot issues
- Assist with onboarding & regulatory requirements for new clients
- Research and analyze financial market data; summarize data for recent trends and market developments
- Utilize Bloomberg & internal currency pricing tools & systems.
- Assist mid-market group with electronic systems
- Use appropriate systems to accurately price FX products & monitor credit exposures.
- Incorporate AI tools to improve efficiencies.
Benefits
- health insurance
- tuition reimbursement
- accident and life insurance
- retirement savings plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
