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Futures Dealer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what futures dealers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most futures dealers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Futures dealer with experience executing exchange-traded derivatives across commodities, currencies, interest rates and indices. Skilled in managing price risk, margin calls and counterparty exposure on platforms such as Bloomberg Terminal and CME Direct. RG146 accredited and focused on disciplined trade execution and accurate end-of-day reconciliation.
Key skills
- Financial analysis and modelling
- Risk and internal controls
- Data analysis
- Strategy development
- Bloomberg Terminal
- Reuters Eikon
- CME Direct
- Python for data modelling
- R for data modelling
- Excel
- Problem solving
- Time and deadline management
- Written communication
Experience: example bullet points
- Executed buy and sell orders for futures contracts across ASX 24 and CME, consistently achieving fills within market bid-ask spreads.
- Monitored open positions and managed drawdowns throughout the trading day, applying strict stop-loss discipline to limit losses.
- Analysed economic data and price charts to identify trade entry and exit signals, contributing to a positive risk-adjusted return over the quarter.
- Managed counterparty risk and margin calls with brokers, ensuring all margin obligations were met on time and without incident.
- Reconciled trades and settled accounts at close of business, maintaining a zero-error record in daily trade reconciliations.
Education
Bachelor degree in finance, economics, commerce or a related field, with RG146 accreditation for dealing in derivatives.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- RG146
- ASX 24
- CME
- futures contracts
- derivatives
- margin calls
- counterparty risk
- Bloomberg Terminal
- Reuters Eikon
- CME Direct
- Python
- R
- Excel
- risk management
- trade reconciliation
- exchange-traded derivatives
- ASIC
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.