Global Banking & Markets- Houston- Associate, Trading

Global Banking & Markets
- Houston
- Associate, Trading-   Houston, TX, United States

Associate, Trading with J. Aron & Company LLC in Houston, Texas.

Responsible for making prices and executing trades in asset classes such as equities, bonds, commodities and foreign exchange on behalf of the firm's clients. Changing and executing orders, managing risk of related books, and building relationships with sales, operations, engineering and structuring teams to facilitate premiere client experience. Work with other Trading desks and Sales / Investment Banking coverage to identify potential transactions and clients across various industries and products.

Work with senior team members to proactively pitch and originate new transactions and build relationships with clients and advisors. Work on fundamental and quantitative research and trading ideas for a trading desk and client trades. Develop term sheets, marketing materials, internal committee presentations and produce detailed financial models, scenario, and credit analysis. Work with control side personnel during execution to ensure transaction approval and support.

Conduct in-depth market analysis and research supply and demand factors for natural gas and power markets. Structure and price transactions as part of collaborative team. Manage ongoing credit and/or funding risks post-execution.

Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Economics, Finance, or a related field and two (2) years of experience in job offered or a related role.

Prior experience must include two (2) years with: conducting quantitative analysis on complex trading products, including working with mathematical valuations and probability weighted outcomes and applying this analysis to provide liquidity and manage risk; executing complex trades and structured transactions in various financial and physical power and natural gas markets; presenting investment theses and risk analyses to senior leaders; liaising with clients, investors, and internal sub-groups to achieve commercial outcomes;

applying financial accounting principles to build cash flow models and corporate valuations; and performing regression data analytics on historical trading data.

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.