Exotic Derivatives Trader (757029)

Serve as a team lead responsible for driving the market making and risk hedging strategy for multinational bank’s Trading Flow Structured EQ unit, seeking to maximize franchise and leverage in single stocks product distribution to institutional clients (incl. Private Banks, Broker Dealers, and Asset Managers) and maintain portfolio results within established risk limits as well as focusing on promoting excellence in service offered to internal/ external clients. Duties include:

• Supervise small team of traders giving counterparty service in response to institutional clients’ requests submitted by bank’s Sales team and collaborate in offering tailor-made exotic derivatives adapted to such clients’ needs, focusing solely on single stocks, excluding index quotations.

• Generate recurrent income to meet annual revenue targets.

• Coordinate pricing and product ideas for the single stocks book.

• Report to direct supervisor for any need for Risk limits or products approvals.

• Track unit activity, monitoring main activity indicators and follow up on the operations’ pipeline and report budget accomplishment to direct supervisor.

• Support the promotion of the bank's positioning as a key player in the market in the region.

• Work with the bank's other Equity Trading desks in updating trading handbook, framework and pricing rules documentation.

• Stay abreast of employer’s internal and external policies and procedures and applicable regulatory requirements to ensure activities are conducted in compliance.

Position is based at the employer’s office in New York City with option to telecommute one week every six months.

5 years of experience in equity derivatives trading (any title). Experience can be prior to, during or after degree, and must include:

• 5 years’ experience pricing and modeling equity derivatives trading products.

• 5 years’ experience risk hedging equity derivatives trading products.

• 5 years’ experience analyzing quantitative data of volatility markets to improve and automate pricing of client deals.

• 5 years’ experience managing an options book of at least $1 billion notional, including delta, gamma, rho, FX, theta, vega, vanna and correlation hedging.

• 5 years’ experience offering derivatives tailored to the needs of institutional clients (Private Banks, Broker Dealers, and Asset Managers) and the different types of products/features these different categories require.

• 3 years’ experience in managing clearinghouse margin and balance sheet optimization.

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Finance or Financial Markets

Please copy and paste your resume in the email body (do not send attachments, we cannot open them) and email it to candidates at placementservicesusa.com with reference #757029 in the subject line.

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