Key Responsibilities:

1.Trade Execution & Client Servicing

- Oversee end-to-end trade execution for institutional long-only clients, ensuring accuracy, speed, and minimal market impact with auditable order-to-execution controls and complete time-stamped trails.

- Manage client order flow and ensure seamless coordination with the sales and research teams.

- Maintain consistent engagement with fund managers, dealers, and execution heads at long-only clients.

- Ensure transparent and timely communication of market color, liquidity insights, and trading trends to clients including post-trade execution quality metrics (VWAP/TWAP etc.) where applicable.

2. Market Intelligence & Strategy

- Monitor and analyze market movements, fund flows, and volume patterns to provide actionable trading insights.

- Advise clients and internal teams on market depth, liquidity, and potential execution strategies including slicing/participation guidance for large orders and blocks where relevant.

- Support cash-futures arbitrage execution workflows (index and single-stock), including basis monitoring, rollover handling, and coordination on margin/settlement constraints.

- Contribute to trading strategies aligned with client mandates and market conditions.

- Support the sales team in enhancing wallet share and client activity through proactive market engagement.

- Support client trials/benchmarks by coordinating parallel execution comparisons and screen-share / monitoring setups when required.

3. Risk & Compliance Management

- Ensure adherence to all SEBI, NSE, BSE, and internal trading and compliance policies.

- Monitor exposures, trade limits, and counterparty risks in real time.

- Maintain robust checks and controls to prevent errors, unauthorized trades, or policy breaches (pre-trade checks, restricted list/insider controls, order modification/cancellation controls).

- Liaise with risk, compliance, and operations teams to ensure smooth trade settlement and regulatory reporting and daily sharing of required trade logs/audit trails with clients.

4. Relationship Management

- Build and sustain deep, trust-based relationships with key buy-side dealers, fund managers, and compliance officers at long-only funds.

- Represent the firm as a trusted execution partner for institutional clients.

- Coordinate with corporate access and research teams to support client engagement initiatives.

- Exiting relationships across mutual funds, insurance firms.

5. Leadership & Team Management

- Lead and mentor a team of institutional traders, ensuring consistent performance and professional growth.

- Foster a disciplined, client-centric, and high-integrity trading culture.

- Implement performance metrics to drive efficiency, accuracy, and responsiveness within the desk including TAT, slippage, fill ratios, rejection rates, and exception handling logs.

Key Skills & Competencies:

- Deep understanding of market microstructure, equity and derivatives execution, and trading systems including cash-futures arbitrage mechanics (basis, roll, impact, and execution constraints).

- Strong network and relationships with institutional long-only investors, including mutual funds and insurance firms.

- Expertise in handling large order books with minimal impact cost and adherence to compliance norms.

- Excellent communication, decision-making, and real-time problem-solving abilities.

- Proficiency with trading platforms and OMS/EMS workflows (order staging, basket uploads, algo order types, post-trade reports).

- Exposure to algo or quant-based trading systems is an advantage (VWAP/TWAP/POV, custom algos, and execution analytics).