Global Markets Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Sales & Trading Full Time Analyst – 2027 – Sydney

Global Markets Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Sales & Trading Full-Time Analyst Program

What we’re looking for:

• Final year Undergraduate/Master’s student with outstanding academic achievement
• Mathematics, engineering, statistics, or programming background would be advantageous
• Strong interest in global financial markets and factors that impact them
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Comfortable with change and adjusting to changing demands and requirements
• A strong team player and client-focused
• Demonstrates energy and drive
• Creative thinking and problem-solving skills
• Coding skills are desired but not mandatory. Please try your best to answer the two coding challenges in the video interview but if you are unable to do so, you may skip to the end. Be sure to complete your video interview submission if you are skipping the coding challenges. 

Why Us?

Global Markets provides banking products and services through Bank of America and trading and other broker-dealer products and services, including research through BofA Securities. Our institutional clients are across fixed-income credit, commodity and equity businesses. Global Markets product coverage includes securities and derivative products in both the primary and secondary markets. We also work with our commercial and corporate clients to provide risk management products using interest rate, equity, credit and commodity derivatives, fixed-income and mortgage-related products.

To support our institutional investor clients globally in their investing and trading activities, the Global Markets team provides financing, securities clearing, settlement and custody services. We also work with our commercial and corporate clients to provide foreign exchange products.

What you’ll do:

• Support the pricing, execution, and lifecycle management of client transactions across FICC products including rates, credit, FX, and commodities
• Work closely with both sales and trading teams to understand client demand and deliver tailored market solutions
• Monitor global markets, economic data, and news flow to identify risks and opportunities impacting clients and trading positions
• Assist in managing trading books, including P&L tracking, risk analysis, and position monitoring
• Contribute to the generation of trade ideas, including relative value opportunities, hedging strategies, and macro themes
• Prepare and deliver client materials such as market updates, trade ideas, and pitch presentations
• Build and maintain relationships with institutional clients by responding to enquiries, providing market colour, and facilitating execution
• Analyse client flows and trading activity to identify trends and opportunities to grow revenue and wallet share
• Collaborate with structuring, research, and other product teams to deliver cross-asset solutions
• Support process improvements, including the use of data analysis and technology to enhance efficiency and execution

Program Overview

For most countries in Asia Pacific, training begins when you will join newly-hired analysts from around the world for an intensive few weeks to learn about our company, its culture and all the relevant tools, techniques and working practices. You'll also receive grounding in your chosen business area, as you develop your professional skills and team-working capabilities.

On return to your local office, you'll take on additional responsibility at an early stage. With on-going development opportunities throughout the program you'll be encouraged to grow your abilities through on-the-job learning and structured training. We'll support and reward you on the basis of your individual performance.

About Us

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. 

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being an inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Connecting Asia Pacific to the World

Our Asia Pacific team is spread across 19 cities in 12 markets. We are focused on connecting Asia to the world and the world to Asia, using our global expertise to ensure success is shared between us, our clients and our communities. Our regional footprint covers 12 currencies, more than a dozen languages and five time zones, placing us firmly among the region’s leading financial services companies.