Options Trader - Quant & Derivatives - BFSI

Looking forward for a suitable candidate for the position of Options Trader role for Quant and Derivatives Desk.

Job Purpose

Looking for a Trader for Options Trading desk. The candidate will join an existing team of derivatives traders and work alongside to help improve the desk's performance.

Key Responsibilities :

- Generate options trading strategies, validate them with data crunching and pitch them to traders

- Develop and maintain opportunity trackers and position monitors in the equity derivatives space

- Learn structuring, pricing and trading/hedging exotic options and eventually do all of these independently

- Coordinating with Risk and Mid office teams for day to day desk activities

- Gradually run own trading book, take ownership of risk and PnL

Job Requirements :

Experience - 3+ Years

Functional Competencies :

- Strong quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills

- Hands on experience of coding in Python and/or R required

- Excellent MS Office skills with a strong focus on automation, knowledge of Excel VBA is highly preferred