Position Overview & Specifications
Job Title
Trainee Sales Trader (Swedish/Norwegian)
Job Description
Role purpose
We're looking for tenacious, curious, eager, and open-minded people to help us maintain our industry leadership. We recruit based on excellence and believe that diversity is vital to success, while priorities innovation and collaboration to achieve our common goals.
What you will do
Your role will include the following.
- Provide trade and administrative support on OTC derivatives accounts to our global retail, corporate and institutional clients across phone, email, and web chat
- Gain a strong understanding of various financial instruments such as stocks, options, futures, FX, cryptocurrencies, bonds, and commodities
- Gain a strong understanding of financial markets, stock exchanges, and macro-economic events
- Provide trading expertise on P&L and margin calculations, order types, charges, trade assistance, and investigations
- Providing an execution-only phone dealing service (following relevant training)
- Answering queries and cross selling our products and platforms Running daily morning market calls
- Resolving trade disputes
- Competitive Salary
- Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities Performance-related bonuses
- Pension, insurance, and medical plans
- Career-focused technical and leadership training in class and online, incl. unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning platform
- Gym memberships allowance
- A day off on your birthday
- Two days of volunteering leave per year
- Comprehensive global and local onboarding process – to the company and your role
- Funding for training or studies relevant to your role
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black, and Parents & Careers networks with an annual budget for organizing events & projects that foster an open, diverse, and inclusive culture.
- Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund
- A degree-level education (any subject)
- Experience working in a customer-facing role (Preferable)
- Fluency in your designated language expertise, as well as English (verbal and written) - Swedish/Norwegian
- A Sales background would be a distinct advantage.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- A logical and analytical approach to problem-solving
- Confident to employ basic math skills, particularly mental arithmetic.
- Strong team player and time management skills
- Literacy in MS Office
- Can handle an administrative role.