Rates Trading – Intern

11-week trading internship where students gain hands-on experience in financial markets, trading strategies, risk management, and quantitative analysis while working with experienced traders.

Job Description

At Citadel Securities, our traders make complex risk decisions and execute trades at scale, in real-time. You will work with markets and trading experts who use predictive analytics and advanced technology to monitor risk, respond to market signals, execute trading strategies, and provide liquidity to the world’s most important financial institutions such as as central banks, pension funds and asset managers. 

As an intern, you’ll get to challenge the impossible in markets and trading through an 11 week program that will allow you to collaborate and connect with senior team members. In addition, you’ll get the opportunity to network and socialize with peers throughout the internship.

Your Objectives:

• Develop in-depth knowledge of financial markets 

• Constantly learn and adapt trading approaches 

• Work with current trading team to build new tools, improvements to pricing framework, and run data analysis 

• Learn how our traders price and hedge client flow/help develop firm’s relationship with client base 

• Observe how traders develop trading strategies around technical and market events

Your Skills & Talents:

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s in finance, business administration, economics, computer science, statistics, mathematics or related disciplines preferred 

• Passion and demonstrated interest in the markets  

• Exceptional problem-solving skills 

• Attention to detail and good organizational skills 

• Self-starter and hard-working, not afraid to question status quo, and has an entrepreneurial mindset 

• Proactive, motivated, and self-drive personality with a strong desire to learn, adapt, and take initiative 

• Superior written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills  

• Ability to efficiently multi-task and has the capacity to handle high-pressure and fast-paced environments 

About Citadel Securities

Citadel Securities is a technology-driven, next-generation global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with world-class liquidity, competitive pricing and seamless front-to-back execution in a broad array of financial products.

Our teams of engineers, traders and researchers harness leading-edge quantitative research and the accelerating power of compute, machine learning and AI to power our analytics and tackle the market’s and our clients’ most critical challenges. Together, we are forging the future of capital markets.