Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
Step into a front-office role where you can help institutional clients navigate markets and make informed investment decisions. You will work alongside experienced sales professionals, collaborating closely with trading and structuring teams to deliver timely ideas and efficient execution. This role offers the opportunity to develop your client engagement skills, grow your product knowledge, and build a strong internal network across the platform. If you enjoy fast-paced markets, relationship-building, and continuous learning, this is the role for you.

As an Associate in Institutional Cash Equity Sales within Global Sales & Marketing, you will support UK client coverage across asset managers and financial institutions. You will help deliver market colour, trade ideas, and execution support across cash equities, partnering with senior sales colleagues and internal desks. You will contribute to day-to-day client engagement while building the technical and commercial skills to originate solutions independently.

Key responsibilities include supporting senior sales colleagues in marketing cash equity ideas and solutions to institutional clients, co-covering a portfolio of UK clients, developing and pitching tailored trade ideas aligned to client objectives and market conditions, partnering with trading and structuring to manage client flows and respond to market opportunities, assisting with pricing, execution support, and post-trade coordination, providing timely market updates and relevant insights, tracking client activity and feedback to refine coverage plans, preparing client materials and presentations, and prioritising multiple requests effectively while maintaining accuracy and responsiveness.

Experience
- Experience in a markets-based role, preferably within equities
- Experience supporting institutional client coverage (asset managers and financial institutions) preferred
- Familiarity with cash equity market structure and execution considerations preferred
- Experience preparing client-facing materials and presenting trade ideas preferred

About you
- Ability to explain complex products and market concepts clearly to clients and internal partners
- Demonstrated technical aptitude and comfort working with market data and analytics
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail, with a focus on accuracy in a high-tempo environment
- Ability to manage competing deadlines and organise work effectively
- Collaborative working style and commitment to team outcomes
- Interest in developing cross-desk partnerships to deliver broader solutions

Qualifications
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Proficiency with Bloomberg, including analytical functions
- This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.