Univest - Assistant Vice President/Vice President - Research/Options Trader

AVP/ VP - Options Trader

What are we looking for ?

- We are looking for a Senior Options Trader (NISM qualified pref.) and it is a full time opportunity based in Gurgaon. 5 days working with fast paced development culture.

- Looking for a talented Options trader for a SEBI Registered RA firm.

- Multi-faceted role includes market making and risk management of options and developing option strategies.

- In the company, software developers, traders and analysts work closely together and collaboratively and our trading is highly technology dependent - thus being technology savvy is a must.

What you will do ?

- Managing the options risk of an active, electronic and automated trading platform with ability to understand portfolio level hedging of Greeks.

- A trader who will deploy index and single stock option market making and trading strategies and has worked either with broking houses or prop trading desks running various option based strategies.

- Analysis of trading performance and development of new logic to improve trading performance. Work closely with programmers to manage the development of sophisticated trading/risk systems - which includes understanding requirements, developing new functionality etc.

Few job requirements:

- Knowledge of derivatives and options- in particular option trading strategies

- Knowledge of options - pricing, Greeks, volatility trading, hedging

- Several years of actual derivatives trading experience

- Strong analytical abilities including the use of Excel for analysis

- Ability to work in a fast paced environment

- Very strong communication skills- ability to present ideas and strategies clearly and interact well with both peers as well as senior management

- Hands on expertise of tools like: Opstra, Sensibull, OI Pulse etc.

- Post-Graduate degree in statistics, finance, mathematics, engineering (Computer Science) or other quantitative or computational disciplines

- Strong experience working both independently and, in a team-oriented collaborative environment.

- Entrepreneurial, self-motivated individual high energy, high activity levels passion for working with an innovative, small but rapidly growing company