Assistant Vice President - Equity Derivatives - Financial Institution

The role is suited towards someone with the following characteristics:

- In depth Derivatives product knowledge relating to different aspects of pricing, risk management and capture of Structured and Flow Derivatives

- Enthusiastic with the ability to learn quickly from other members of the trading team

- Knowledge of the complete front to back lifecycle of a product

- Ability to understand complex problems quickly and move projects forward

- Strong quantitative skills and should know at least 1 programming language (Preferably Python)

- Strong understanding of control framework

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Masters' Degree in Finance or Economics

- Experience and understanding of the complete front to back lifecycle of a product

- 4 to 8 years of prior experience in a financial institution or firm

- Proven experience and ability to build, maintain and enhance relationships with other key areas within the bank e.g. Technology, broader global Middle office and other front office stakeholders such as Sales and Structuring

- Intermediate programming skills (Python preferable)

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- The candidate will have to be proactive in identifying issues and getting them resolved by aliasing with various stakeholders

- The candidate needs to work on several time sensitive activities and hence is required to be meticulous and efficient

- Attention to detail with strong analytical and quantitative ability