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Quant Trader - Vega Trading Desk (1-5 yrs)
Job Purpose
Looking for a Trader to join the Vega Trading desk. The candidate will join an existing team of derivatives traders and work alongside to help improve the desks performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform statistical analysis of historical and current financial market data
- 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
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in statistics, finance, engineering, mathematics, physics, computational finance from tier-1 institute
Experience 1-3 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
- Knowledge of derivatives is a plus but not mandatory
- Behavioral Competencies - Ability to communicate well, thinking on their feet, ability to handle high pressure
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