Junior Treasury Dealer, Trading

Junior Treasury Dealer

Amazon is seeking a Junior Treasury Dealer to join the Treasury Strategy and Markets Team, which oversees global foreign exchange trading, commodities, and equities execution. This role provides an opportunity to work alongside experienced traders at the center of Amazon’s trading operations, assisting in the execution and management of multi-asset class trading strategies across FX, equities, and commodities markets.

As a supporting member of the team, you will help leverage trading platforms and analytics to support efficient execution by senior dealers while learning best-in-class trading practices. The successful candidate should be eager to learn, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to balance multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced market environment. You will also support the development of relationships with key banking counterparties and collaborate cross-functionally across Amazon’s business lines to help meet the company’s global trading needs.

This position requires a motivated individual who will assist in continuously improving Treasury processes while maintaining a rigorous control environment and compliance with various Amazon policies.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Execution Support: Assist senior traders in executing foreign exchange, equity, and commodity trades to support Amazon’s global business operations.
• Market Monitoring: Support real-time monitoring of market conditions, liquidity, and pricing across multiple venues and counterparties to help ensure optimal execution.
• Reporting & Analytics: Create, maintain, and distribute reports tracking execution performance metrics, including fill rates, rejection rates, and price improvements against internal KPIs.
• Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA): Assist in conducting regular TCA to optimize trading performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Trading Dashboard Maintenance: Help design and maintain trading dashboards that provide real-time visibility into execution performance, market conditions, and liquidity metrics.
• Counterparty Coordination: Support management of relationships with key liquidity providers, including compiling data for periodic counterparty performance reviews.
• Settlement & Operations: Monitor trade settlement processes and assist in resolving trading-related issues with counterparties in a timely manner.
• Process Documentation: Develop and maintain standard operating procedures for trading activities across all asset classes, ensuring documentation remains current and accurate.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with internal teams including Global Payments, Finance Operations, and Technology on trading infrastructure improvements and day-to-day operational needs.
• Technology & Automation Support: Collaborate with technology teams to enhance trading platforms, support API connectivity testing, and assist in automating execution processes.
• Research: Stay current on market developments, regulatory changes, and new trading technologies that could impact execution strategies, and summarize findings for the broader team.
• Compliance Support: Assist in regular reviews of execution policies and procedures to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.
• Ad-Hoc Support: Provide general support to the FX trading organization, including ad-hoc analysis, preparing materials for management presentations, and contributing to team projects as needed.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics, or business; or a Bachelor’s degree and experience in a quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance).
• Fluency in English (speak, write, and read).
• Experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field.
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• Experience creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• Experience identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
• Experience using advanced SQL for data mining and business intelligence.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or equivalent spreadsheet tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• Experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query).
• Experience with multi-lateral foreign exchange netting, in-house banking solutions, and pay-on/receive-on-behalf-of cash management solutions, as well as experience with corporate treasury FX trading platforms such as 360T and Bloomberg FXGO.