As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.
Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.
We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.
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Why Join
Imagine being part of a team that drives the heartbeat of the financial markets. As an Institutional Equities Dealer at OCBC, you'll be at the forefront of trading and market-making, working with institutional clients to provide them with the best possible execution and market insights. It's a fast-paced and dynamic role that requires a unique blend of technical expertise, market knowledge, and relationship-building skills.
How you succeed
To excel in this role, you'll need to stay ahead of the curve, constantly monitoring market trends and developments to provide timely and insightful advice to your clients. You'll need to build strong relationships with your clients, understanding their needs and preferences to deliver tailored solutions that meet their objectives. You'll also need to work closely with our research team to stay up-to-date on market analysis and trends.
What you do
Support institutional client order execution across Asia and global equity markets while ensuring adherence to best execution principles, internal dealing policies, and regulatory requirements.
Assist senior execution traders in handling client flow, liquidity monitoring, execution management, and dissemination of market colour.
Execute and support trades including block trades, program trades, basket executions, and event-driven flows such as index rebalancing and high-volume market events.
Coordinate closely with sales, sales trading, operations, settlement, compliance, and technology teams to ensure smooth trade lifecycle management.
Build and maintain strong working relationships with institutional clients through responsive execution support and high service standards.
Involve in institutional DMA and electronic execution workflows across supported markets.
Coordinate onboarding of institutional clients, including workflow setup, documentation, internal approvals, connectivity readiness, testing, and production go-live support.
Manage onboarding for DMA, algorithmic trading access, FIX connectivity, and execution platform enablement.
Act as the primary front-office point of contact for institutional clients on electronic trading matters, driving timely issue resolution with internal teams and external vendors .
Manage client communications related to electronic trading workflows, connectivity, platform incidents, exchange notifications, and production readiness .
Monitor electronic order routing, exchange connectivity, and order exceptions, escalating issues where appropriate .
Work with various stakeholders on rollout of electronic trading enhancements, platform upgrades, new execution tools, and workflow optimisation initiatives.
Who you are
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
Experience in equities trading, institutional brokerage, sales trading, electronic execution, or capital markets.
Strong understanding of global equities markets, market microstructure, exchange trading rules, and trading workflows.
Sound knowledge of institutional execution services including DMA, algorithmic trading, care orders, and high-touch/low-touch execution.
Familiarity with trading systems, Order Management Systems (OMS), Execution Management Systems (EMS), and market data platforms.
Understanding of trade lifecycle processes, including order routing, trade execution, allocation, affirmation, settlement, and post-trade operations.
Knowledge of electronic trading connectivity, FIX protocol, and exchange/broker connectivity is highly advantageous.
Ability to analyze market activity, trading flows, liquidity conditions, and execution performance to support client trading needs.
Strong awareness of regulatory requirements, best execution standards, and market compliance obligations.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify trading, operational, and connectivity issues and drive solutions.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with institutional clients, brokers, exchanges, and internal support teams.
Self-motivated team player who thrives in a fast-paced trading environment and demonstrates a strong willingness to learn and adapt to evolving market and technology developments.
Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.
OCBC is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.
OCBC and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services.
OCBC’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 570 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include about 300 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 90 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang.
OCBC’s private banking services are provided by its wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals.
OCBC's insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors, is one of the largest private sector asset management companies in Southeast Asia.
