ETF Capital Markets Specialist

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Job Description

Your Team

The ETF Capital Markets team is responsible for supporting clients through the buying and selling of ETFs by delivering ETF market insights internally and externally, educating clients on trading strategies, liquidity, and market structure, as well as coordinating with the sell-side community to ensure the best market quality and stability in our ETF lineup. This team is responsible for understanding the nuances of trading ETFs spanning all asset classes and is tasked with effectively communicating optimal trading strategies to clients in an effort to help them achieve best execution and increase ETF usage. This team is also responsible for ensuring secondary market quality in Invesco ETFs listed in Canada and works closely with exchanges, liquidity providers and buy-side trading desks.

Your Role

You will play an integral role in developing and maintaining relationships with existing and prospective market making firms, ATS’ and Exchanges in order to enhance liquidity and reduce spreads in the entire Invesco lineup of ETFs. Acts as the point of first contact for such relationships in terms of pricing, basket and other ETF liquidity inquiries.

What you would you be responsible for:

• Help manage new and existing DB relationships and act as subject matter expert in ETF market maker programs.
• Help manage relationships with and maintain protocol with our sell side capital market sales partners who are looking for access to key clients and events.
• Daily engagements with Portfolio Managers, PM Analysts, Product Development and Operations, to ensure Capital Markets oversight is accounted for
• Assist clients across all channels (Retail, RIA, and Institutional) in achieving best execution when trading IVZ ETFs. Provide education on ETF liquidity and effectively communicate specific trading strategies and associated costs and differentiating IVZ products from competitor funds.
• Speaks directly with clients about trading strategy, liquidity, market colour, impact, counterparty feedback, execution guidance and ETF implementation strategies. 
• Responsible for managing and enhancing pre-trade analytics and reporting platform and capabilities.
• Monitor volume, inflows/outflows, premiums/discounts, short interest and borrow and identify trends to support sales teams. Collect, analyze and extract meaning from ETF trading data in an effort to produce relevant content and drive inflows.
• Monitor secondary market quality and drive spreads in by engaging additional on-screen market participants.
• Monitor articles, white papers and blogs that highlight potential issues with ETFs and help coordinate the proper response, making sure it aligns with our global messaging.
• Contributes to Invesco ETF value proposition through preparation and delivery of educational presentations, thought leadership and strategic content. Understands various client segments and shapes content and delivery as applicable.
• Manages daily inbound requests from Sales, Product Development, ETF product specialists and Sell-Side Partners on Capital Market inquiries
• Daily Maintenance of Capital Markets tools using Bloomberg APIs/Excel
• Developing, operationalizing, and automating Capital Markets Reporting
• Liaising with Legal, Fund Administration and Operation teams to help coordinate maintenance and updates for compliance on regulatory changes
• Extraction of meaningful primary market data via Internal systems

Experience you bring:

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Business or Economics preferred
• MBA a plus and CFA is preferred
• 5+ years of experience in asset management, capital markets or financial services preferred
• Deep understanding of ETF structure and mechanics of creation & redemption. Ability to understand and articulate complex investment concepts and strategies.
• Understanding of capital markets, market structure and competitive landscape including delta 1 products.
• ETF trading or sales trading experience required
• Exceptional communicator and public speaker with strong customer service capabilities.
• Ability to understand and articulate complex investment concepts and strategies. Ability to recognize and research trends, synthesize and communicate effectively to internal and external teams.
• Deep understanding of ETF structure and mechanics of creation & redemption.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

YesWorkplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office. 

What’s in it for you? 

Our people are at the very core of our success and we strive to provide employees with a competitive total rewards package which includes: 

• Hybrid working environment 

• RRSP Contributions 

• Health & Wellness Benefits 

• Work flexibility Programs 

• Parental Leave Benefits 

• Study Support 

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invesco is committed to fair and accessible employment practices. If selected for an interview, we will work with you to ensure that your interview is accessible and accommodation is provided. Please contact us at [email protected] or 1.800.874.6275 to let us know if you require accommodation for an interview due to a disability.