Quantitative Trader - BFSI - IIT/NIT/IIM

Equity Options Trader

Responsibilities :

- Risk Management and Hedging.

- Analysis of market volatility.

- Evaluation of performance of existing and new trading strategies.

- Optimization of performance of existing strategies.

- Improvement of new strategies.

- Working closely with team members in order to implement the above.

Qualifications :

- A degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science.

- Prior experience in Equity Options Market Making.

- Good understanding of Risk Management (both vanilla and stress situations) and Hedging.

- An ability to perform P&L attribution and fine tune strategies as required.

- A familiarity with Volatility Dynamics.

- Good knowledge of Mathematics, Statistics and Data Mining preferred.

- Proficiency in R, Matlab.

- Good problem solving skills.

- An ability to collaborate extensively with team members.

Candidates from IITs/Top engineering institutes with a CGPA of 7 and above are highly preferred.