Sales and Trading

Here, you can find out more about Sales and Trading, our work, our clients and where you could fit into the team.

What Is Sales & Trading?

The Sales &Trading division of Citi focuses on advising investors about investment opportunities in the equity and fixed income markets and on transacting business on behalf of our clients. Our professionals buy, sell, structure and research. Our clients include the largest institutional investment managers, mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds, risk arbitrage funds, sector-specific funds and retail accounts.

Typical roles in Sales & Trading include:

Sales - The Sales team is responsible for building and managing client relationships. They understand clients’ needs through clear and frequent communication, and help to action clients’ needs through problem-solving.

Trading – Traders manage customer-driven business and generate profits through market making, and by taking proprietary positions. Astute risk management and a strong quantitative background are required for this role.

Structuring – The Structuring team utilizes problem-solving skills and innovation as they construct new products and wrappers. Communication of ideas and responsiveness to investor appetite is crucial. 

Marketing – Communication and creativity are key to this role. Developing marketing materials, advertising campaigns, business pitches and client communications are a few of the tasks the Marketing team performs.

Quantitative Analysis – Rigorous financial modelling and analysis to understand and replicate exposures and returns for proprietary and marketable purposes are key to this role.

Sales & Trading and Citi

Citi professionals continuously provide market intelligence and liquidity to a wide array of institutions ranging from traditional mutual funds investing primarily in equities to alternative investment vehicles investing across the capital structure. Citi employees must be both in touch with the pulse of the market as well as cognizant of longer-term trends. Whether it's a split-second trading decision or in-depth analysis as part of a complicated transaction, our goal remains concise and simple: to provide value to the investment process of our clients.

How Are We Structured?

The Sales & Trading business covers multiple products including: Commodities, Credit, Equities, Foreign Exchange and Local Markets, G10 Rates/Risk Treasury/Fixed Income Finance, Prime Finance and Services and Retail Structured Products.