GLOBAL BANKING & MARKETS

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW

As a Global Banking & Markets Strat, you will play an integral role on the trading floor. You may create cutting-edge derivative pricing models and empirical models that provide insight into market behavior, or develop automated trading algorithms for the firm and its clients. You might be involved in analyzing exposures and structuring transactions to meet client needs, or in designing and developing complex parallel computing architectures, electronic trading tools, and advanced algorithms. Throughout Global Banking & Markets, Strats are using quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The candidate will sit within Asia Flow Vol Equities Strategies team. Closely working with the Flow Vol Trading desk, he or she will focus on the following themes:

• Automated pricing and workflows: pro-actively automate manual workflows and improve existing processes with particular focus on pricing automation, and business metrics
• Modelling and prediction of pricing inputs (dividend, funding spread and volatility), design of workflow and automation tools to mark these inputs
• Systematic and quantitative analysis of risk and flow of the franchise, driving business decision and the design of our platform
• On-exchange algorithmic trading: design and optimization of derivatives market taking and market making trading algorithms

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent academic record (in a relevant quantitative field e.g. Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Computer Science)
• Strong analytical and programming skills
• At least 3 years of experience in financial markets, preferably as a quantitative analyst
• Previous experience in a sales and trading desk environment, and relevant work experience in derivatives
• Pricing model experience with derivatives products
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to self- motivate, multi task and work independently