Associate to VP, Trader of Institutional Equities
China Merchants Securities’ institutional trader executes client orders across equities and related products. The role also provides market analysis and contributes to trading-platform changes.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Execute institutional orders in equity, bond and derivative instruments
- Provide market observations and trade recommendations
- Test and help launch trading-system changes
- Investigate execution issues with internal teams
What they ask for
Required
- Three or more years in Hong Kong markets
- Financial-instrument expertise
- Client and stakeholder communication
- English, Cantonese and Mandarin
- Judgement under time pressure
Preferred
- Buy-side or sell-side institutional trading
- Education
- Bachelor qualification or higher; finance or economics preferred.
- Experience
- 3+ years in Hong Kong financial markets; institutional equity trading preferred.
- Markets
- equities, fixed-income, futures, options
How to prepare
- Explain execution choices for an institutional equity order
- Evaluate transaction costs and liquidity constraints
- Design a UAT scenario for a trading workflow
What to study
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Quantitative Risk Management
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with China Merchants Securities International Company Limited and doesn’t handle applications.