Executive Director, FX & Rates Trading

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What You’ll Be Doing

As a member of the Mid-Market Solutions Group, you’ll work in a fast-paced organization where you’ll make a meaningful difference in our clients’ lives. This Executive Director position is dedicated to cross asset coverage of CIBC clients in the South East region of the United States. Under the guidance of the business leader out of Chicago, he/she will be responsible for client and banker coverage. There will be an assigned client portfolio and require the pricing and execution of trades.  It will also include serving as a productive team member and helping as a backup for others. 

You’re flexible to work hours as needed to help deliver a great client experience, which may include evenings and weekends. At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You’ll Succeed

Main Objectives

• Execute the sales function, ensuring that all transactions are executed in accordance with established risk management strategies and risk parameters

• Contribute to the team orientated culture

• Enhance the ability to monitor, scrutinize, measure and mitigate risks

• Ensure adherence to policy

• Keep up to date with market trends

• Champion CIBC values, and provide support in a manner consistent with the highest quality standards and CIBC objectives

• Partner with trading, risk, origination and structuring teams across the firm to enhance CIBC’s functional capabilities

Within US Mid-Market Solutions Group

• Work closely with Commercial Banking to identify new clients & opportunities

• Actively promote/market new concepts, products and services

• Act as an information source on regulations, processes and procedures to other areas of CIBC and provide value-added consulting

• Ensure that recommendations and opinions offered to clients are in compliance with legislation and policies of CIBC

Who You Are

• Ability to generate creative (out-of-the box) insights that differentiate CIBC from competition

• Teamwork – work within the sales/trading organization

• Business unit must achieve annual revenue / notional targets in an extremely competitive environment

• Developing productive relationships with “clients”, both internal and external

• Maximizing new business opportunities, which requires a quick response to changing priorities and information

• Developing and maintaining current knowledge in one’s product area

• University degree in Business/Economics (or equivalent)

• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values – trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Conduct and Risk Culture

Our CIBC risk culture is based on employees striving to exceed the expectations of ourselves and our leadership’s identification and mitigation of risks in their daily responsibilities, not just in quarterly or annual monitoring/assessments.  We all are accountable for managing risk.

As an employee of CIBC the incumbent must conduct themselves (and foster an environment for others) in a manner consistent with our strong risk culture. This includes:

• Following all aspects of the CIBC Code of Conduct, as well as all applicable CIBC policies, frameworks, guidelines, processes and controls

• At all times acting in accordance with our Purpose and shared values, to achieve our Bank’s strategic goals

• Understanding and following the qualitative and quantitative components of our Risk Appetite Statements

• Completing all annual Corporate Mandatory Training and Testing modules, as well as any additional business-specific modules, as required and employing the learnings in daily activities and undertakings

• Escalating matters through one of the appropriate channels identified in the CIBC Code of Conduct (i.e., HR, management, Ethics Hotline, Whistleblower, etc.) upon observing activities that may be inconsistent with CIBC’s policies, frameworks, guidelines, pro