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Job Title
Front Office Graduate
Job Description
Front Office Graduate – Johannesburg
Programme start date: January 2024
IG – Who We Are
We’re a FTSE 250 company with a forty-year history of being a market leader in our field. Our aim is to become the default choice for active traders globally, supported by over 2,000 staff located across the world offering over 10,000 products to our client’s base.
Our Graduate Programme is a great opportunity to learn and develop in a company repeatedly certified as one of Britain’s top employers. For more information on what we do, check out our home page, and for what it’s like to work for us, check out our Twitter and LinkedIn pages!
Programme Description
By joining IG Group as a Graduate you will spend 18 months developing a keen understanding of our clients, products and business.
Your initial IG Group experience will be in our Trading Services team. This will be an exciting and insightful 6 months when you will understand how the business works. During this time you will have opportunity to converse with our clients about financial markets and our latest innovations, platforms and products (i.e. CFDs, Spread betting, Share dealing etc.) and learn to support them with any trade related queries.
After successfully learning about our business, products and clients alongside our colleagues in Trading Services, you will move around IG Group to broaden your understanding and apply your skills in other areas. You will gain exposure across our business which could involve rotations in:
- Trading Operations
- Marketing Services
- Commercial Office
- Onboarding Operations
- Compliance and Risk
Career development:
During the graduate programme you will have access to:
- A variety of practical hands-on experiences in multiple disciplines
- Formal training sessions on our products and clients
- A support network of people with significant experience in their field opportunities to further your professional and personal development (communication, presentation, prioritisation, career development)
On successful completion of the graduate programme you’ll have the opportunity to learn and expand your skill set by applying for a new role in the wider Group according to your strengths, preferences, and available vacancies – graduates who have made a positive contribution to the business will be rewarded and offered clear paths to progress.
We’re looking for people with a real passion for delivering business outcomes.
It is important that you have:
- A good grounding in Finance, Economics or Mathematics
- An interest in financial markets
- Recently graduated.
People who recognize the below attributes in themselves would also be very suitable:
- Numerate: is confident with arithmetic under pressure, and is skilled and comfortable working with numbers
- Analytical: enjoys spotting opportunities, risks, patterns, discrepancies and trends in data
- Decisive: confident when making decisions quickly, with the character to take responsibility no matter what happens
- Personable: able to instil a feeling of trust and support in clients and colleagues and can relay complex issues and ideas simply and with ease
Recruitment process:
- Review of applications
- Online Assessment
- Video Interview
- Discovery Day – assessment day in our office
Our work and office culture
It is exciting to achieve goals in a conducive environment. One that is accepting, diverse, supportive and fun. At IG, we’re able to partake in multiple activities and social clubs linked to one’s interest:
- Employee networks
Those networks allow everyone to feel included and build connections with like-minded individuals.
- Women’s Network to help empower women.
- IG Black network, created to connect and support IG employees of black ethnicity. Adherence is open to all races and is to ensure everyone feels comfortable and well equipped while working at IG
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, providing an open and accepting environment
- Parents & Carers Networks where parents can exchange tips/tricks and support one another
- Team Nights Out/ Game nights
This event is a great way to get to know/reconnect with each member of the team, in non-work setting. It’s filled with laughter, great memories (jokes for days)
- Daily fruits and refreshers/ breakfast
Need a healthy snack to get ready for the day/recharge? Help yourself with fresh fruits and refreshers every day.
- Large Annual parties
After a long a challenging year, annual parties are a celebration of individual and collective achievements.
- Charitable endeavors and additional leave days for Voluntary work
Success is better enjoyed together. As IG takes part in multiple charitable projects, it only makes sense to financially match each employee’s personal charitable endeavors and provide two additional leave days for voluntary work
- Sports teams and sponsorship tie-ins
If you’re a sport fanatic, make sure to join our IG sports team or come support while we compete with other companies
The Work environment
You’ll work in a friendly and lively environment. Our comfortable, cutting-edge offices have everything you need to succeed:
- Flexible workspaces and hot desks
- Private quiet rooms
- Breakout and refreshment areas
We’re constantly improving and developing, providing you an environment that encourages your best and a hybrid working model that allows you to work partly from the office and from home.
Number of openings
3
