Principal Trader

EXANTE

Principal Trader responsible for managing liquidity and developing trading strategies at EXANTE. Overseeing principal trading book with a focus on multi-asset trading and risk management.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, run and develop EXANTE’s principal trading book across asset classes.
Provide liquidity against client flow, manage the resulting inventory and hedge residual exposure to generate P&L within the firm’s regulatory, best-execution and conflict-of-interest framework, with full P&L responsibility for the principal trading book.
Market making, flow trading, relative-value and other legitimate strategies within Board-approved risk limits.
Identify, negotiate and onboard exchanges, prime brokers and OTC counterparties needed for hedging and inventory management.
Design, implement and operate the risk limits, monitoring and escalation framework for the book.
Coordinate securities inventory, financing and revenue with the existing Stock Lending team.
Work with the Options Trading and Fixed Income & Structured Products desks to ensure complementary principal books and shared risk visibility.
Cooperate with Operations, Treasury and Technology on workflow, financing, settlement and platform tooling.
Manage conflicts of interest, best-execution arrangements and product-governance compliance across relevant booking entities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10–20 years’ experience in principal trading, flow trading, market making or running a multi-asset trading book at a sell-side firm, broker-dealer, prime broker or proprietary trading house, with documented P&L through different market regimes.
Multi-asset risk management — strong background across delta, gamma, vega, correlation, liquidity and counterparty risk.
Regulatory expertise — hands-on familiarity with the MiFID II Systematic Internaliser regime, best-execution obligations and conflict-of-interest management in a regulated broker-dealer environment is essential.
Securities financing — familiarity with securities financing and stock lending operations is a strong plus.
Cooperative profile — non-negotiable; the role only succeeds by working closely with the existing Stock Lending team and the new trading desks, and a track record of operating effectively across desks and functions is expected.
Fluent English — mandatory.
Commercial and disciplined — technical, comfortable with full accountability for a P&L.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary that reflects your experience and the value you bring.
Flexibility that fits your life — work from home, from our office, or a mix of both. You decide what works best.
Flexible benefits package — choose the options that suit your life, not a one-size-fits-all bundle.
A genuinely good place to work — an informal, collaborative culture where ideas are heard and bureaucracy stays out of your way.
Continuous learning — ongoing training, education programs, and the support to deepen your expertise in a fast-moving industry.
Connection beyond your desk — events that bring our teams together to network and celebrate.
Global exposure — work side by side with talented colleagues from all over the world, across a business serving clients in 100+ countries.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Flow TradingMarket MakingP&L ManagementDelta Risk ManagementGamma Risk ManagementVega Risk ManagementCorrelation Risk ManagementLiquidity Risk ManagementCounterparty Risk ManagementConflict-of-Interest Management

Soft Skills

Cooperative ProfileCommercial Discipline