U.S. / North America Products.

Aggregates cash equity products and market practices for United States and Canadian markets and venues

Software spend $82,000 / seat / yr

What this role actually does

Responsibilities and pain points, sourced from the production graph.

Software pain points

Order, market-data, CRM, and post-trade data live in separate systems, forcing manual reconciliation before client or regulator review.
TCA packs and client execution commentary require manual Excel, screenshot, and narrative work after the close.
Regulatory reporting exceptions surface after the trader has moved on from the order context.
Venue, broker, and exchange changes are hard to test against production-like order flow.
Market-data and platform costs are difficult to allocate by desk, client, or product.
Trader communication, order context, and approvals are split across chat, voice, email, and blotters.

Workflow

A day in the workflow.

A cash equities product or trading specialist starts before the local market open by reviewing overnight index moves, earnings, news, borrow constraints, client axes, and liquidity in Bloomberg Terminal, LSEG Workspace, Excel, chat, and internal dashboards. During market hours, the day shifts to client order handling, venue and algo selection, exception triage, risk-limit checks, and conversations with sales traders, electronic trading, compliance, operations, and technology. After the close, the role reviews fills against arrival price, VWAP, participation, and venue benchmarks, resolves reporting or allocation breaks, prepares TCA commentary for clients, and feeds product gaps into EMS, OMS, data, and surveillance roadmaps.

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