A leading financial services provider in St Albans is seeking a Junior Football Trader to join their Football Desk. The position involves pricing and trading football matches, ensuring accurate market builds, and assisting customer services. Candidates should possess a strong quantitative degree and a passion for football. The role offers a competitive salary and bonus scheme along with benefits like 25 days holiday, enhanced parental leave, and private medical insurance. The work model is hybrid, allowing flexibility in working hours.
Feb 10, 2026
Full time
A leading financial services provider in St Albans is seeking a Junior Football Trader to join their Football Desk. The position involves pricing and trading football matches, ensuring accurate market builds, and assisting customer services. Candidates should possess a strong quantitative degree and a passion for football. The role offers a competitive salary and bonus scheme along with benefits like 25 days holiday, enhanced parental leave, and private medical insurance. The work model is hybrid, allowing flexibility in working hours.
ABOUT US Spreadex has been a trusted name in sports and financial spread betting for over 25 years. Since expanding into fixed odds betting in 2010 and CFD trading in 2017, we remain the only global operator to offer all these services under a single brand. Following a quarter-century of sustained profitability, we're entering an exciting new phase of growth across both our sports and financial divisions. This ambitious expansion is backed by a significant increase in our marketing investment and the recent acquisition of Sporting Index. This role offers a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team at our vibrant St Albans office, just outside London. The position offers a hybrid working model, combining both office-based and remote work. Our office is based in St Albans, Hertfordshire with a fast and simple commute from London and the surrounding area: 20 minutes from London St Pancras/Kings Cross by direct train Regular services also run from Farringdon, City Thameslink, and Blackfriars Easy access from the M1, A1(M), and M25 ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a passionate Junior Football Trader to join our well established Football Desk. The successful candidate's responsibilities will be: Pricing and trading football matches. Creating the best possible level of football trading service by releasing prices early and keeping in-play markets live wherever possible. Creating the most accurate prices possible and optimizing our bet value to revenue conversion rates by using the best possible pricing and trading techniques. Seeking guidance from more experienced traders to improve this wherever possible. Monitoring liabilities and moving prices based on team news, shrewd client trades and competitor market moves. Assisting the Customer Services Team by dealing with escalated queries that come in on your event/sport and helping to provide an excellent telephone betting service. Accurately building and settling markets and booking telephone bets, ensuring mistakes are kept to a minimum. ABOUT YOU Hold a strong degree preferably in a quantitative subject. Passionate about Football and possess an extensive knowledge in all aspects of the sport. Work to a very high level and remain calm in a pressured environment. Very numerate with a sharp betting/trading brain. Have an interest in betting markets. Be prepared to work early/late/night shifts to tie in with when the live Football matches are taking place. BENEFITS Competitive salary and bonus scheme 25 days holiday, rising to 30 after 2 years Enhanced parental leave Contributory pension scheme Private medical insurance scheme Discounts for gym membership, travel & cinema Sabbatical after 10 years of service. Please note that we're looking for someone to start as soon as possible.
Feb 09, 2026
Full time
ABOUT US Spreadex has been a trusted name in sports and financial spread betting for over 25 years. Since expanding into fixed odds betting in 2010 and CFD trading in 2017, we remain the only global operator to offer all these services under a single brand. Following a quarter-century of sustained profitability, we're entering an exciting new phase of growth across both our sports and financial divisions. This ambitious expansion is backed by a significant increase in our marketing investment and the recent acquisition of Sporting Index. This role offers a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team at our vibrant St Albans office, just outside London. The position offers a hybrid working model, combining both office-based and remote work. Our office is based in St Albans, Hertfordshire with a fast and simple commute from London and the surrounding area: 20 minutes from London St Pancras/Kings Cross by direct train Regular services also run from Farringdon, City Thameslink, and Blackfriars Easy access from the M1, A1(M), and M25 ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a passionate Junior Football Trader to join our well established Football Desk. The successful candidate's responsibilities will be: Pricing and trading football matches. Creating the best possible level of football trading service by releasing prices early and keeping in-play markets live wherever possible. Creating the most accurate prices possible and optimizing our bet value to revenue conversion rates by using the best possible pricing and trading techniques. Seeking guidance from more experienced traders to improve this wherever possible. Monitoring liabilities and moving prices based on team news, shrewd client trades and competitor market moves. Assisting the Customer Services Team by dealing with escalated queries that come in on your event/sport and helping to provide an excellent telephone betting service. Accurately building and settling markets and booking telephone bets, ensuring mistakes are kept to a minimum. ABOUT YOU Hold a strong degree preferably in a quantitative subject. Passionate about Football and possess an extensive knowledge in all aspects of the sport. Work to a very high level and remain calm in a pressured environment. Very numerate with a sharp betting/trading brain. Have an interest in betting markets. Be prepared to work early/late/night shifts to tie in with when the live Football matches are taking place. BENEFITS Competitive salary and bonus scheme 25 days holiday, rising to 30 after 2 years Enhanced parental leave Contributory pension scheme Private medical insurance scheme Discounts for gym membership, travel & cinema Sabbatical after 10 years of service. Please note that we're looking for someone to start as soon as possible.