Tag: Derivatives

  • C# GUI Developer on the Equity Derivatives Trader Desktop team

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    Position Category: Information Technology
    Position Title: C# GUI Developer on the Equity Derivatives Trader Desktop team
    Job Level: Associate
    Location: USA – NY – New York
    Education Required: Bachelors Degree

    Position Description:
    C# GUI Developer on the Equity Derivatives Trader Desktop team. Trader Desktop is a pre-trade flow pricing system used by the global derivative desks to price vanilla products (options, variance swaps, dividend swaps, volatility swaps) and some exotic products (convertible bonds, reverse convertible, quantos and autocallables). It is also used to manage market data (volatility, divs, yield curves) and perform data analysis (time series, scenario reports).

    Responsibilities include:
    # Interface with business unit sponsors to gather requirements and document specifications
    # Work with strategies/quants to integrate analytics models and deliver new analysis tools
    # Work with various frontend/middleware/backend teams to deliver projects
    # Work with first level support team to provide production support
    # Involvement in the full development lifecycle of projects
    # Coordinate with global team on new features and participate in driving future direction of the system

    Skills Required:
    # Strong C# with emphasis on multi-threaded real-time GUI development
    # Experience with design patterns, unit testing, performance/memory analysis, and n-tier architecture
    # Experience of full software development life cycle
    # Ability to communicate with the business unit sponsors effectively
    # Ability to coordinate with various teams to deliver projects successfully
    # Strong verbal & written skills required to interact with global teams
    # Highly motivated, analytical thinking individual Skills Desired – Good knowledge of equity derivative pricing systems
    # WPF/MVVM

    Requirements

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  • VP-Director Equity Flow Derivatives Sales, Highly Competitive – Kowloon, Hong Kong

    My client, a leading global Investment Bank is looking for a VP-Director Level equity flow derivatives sales candidate to join their office in Hong Kong. The role will involve the flow sales of equity derivatives to Hedge Fund clients across the Pan-Asian market. My client is looking to bring someone on at a VP-Director Level. The ideal candidate will currently be working at a competitive …

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  • Equity Derivatives Broking, Competitive Package – New York City, US

    My client is a Tier One US broker, they are one of the largest and most renowned houses in the States. They are currently looking to hire one candidate within their Equity Derivatives Broking space for their NYC site.

    This is an urgent hire so offers could be made immediately. The position would be covering US accounts but Pan European coverage would also be considered.

    To be …

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  • Equity derivatives structuring, Highly Competitive – Kowloon, Hong Kong

    I am working with one of the top investment banks that are operating in the Hong Kong at this time. They have a fantastic opportunity for a potential candidate to join their Equity Derivative structuring team. This particular team focus on Asian based corporate clients and they are looking for someone with enthusiasm and determination to take on an associate level role. The role …

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  • Front Office Equity Derivatives Business Analyst, Highly Competitive – London, UK

    A leading Global Investment bank with significant reach and reputation is seeking to hire an exceptional Front Office Business Analyst who is going to be responsible for the delivery of business analysis for Equity Derivatives front office. The successful Front Office Business Analyst will report into the EMEA lead BA and will work closely with the middle office BA`s to ensure end to end …

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  • Equity Derivatives Reporting Developer

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    Position Category: Information Technology
    Position Title: Equity Derivatives Reporting Developer
    Job Level: Associate
    Location: USA – NY – New York
    Education Required: Bachelors Degree

    Position Description:

    This position is for an application developer to work in the Equity Derivatives Aggregation team. The team is responsible for collecting and distributing risk, positions and PnL data for the Equities OTC Derivatives trading division. The successful candidate will need to work closely with Traders, Risk Management and the Risk Calculations Team to deliver intra-day and end of day reporting and data provisioning solutions. The equity derivatives risk repository is a mission critical system that pulls in trading and risk data in real-time and has to maintain sub second response times for data requests made by trading systems. This enables equity trading to make critical risk decisions. The data from the system is also used, amongst other things, for senior trading management reporting, collateral calculations, SEC compliance reporting and calculation of the firm’s VaR numbers.

    The team is a globally distributed development team made up of around 15 people and sits within the wider group of risk and pricing systems.

    The role will require the candidate to use all their problem solving and analytical skills to develop new functionality for the risk repository and reporting system. This includes the completion and migration to a new risk repository being developed using q/KDB+ and Java.

    The candidate must be a strong developer with experience in systems, reporting and database technologies. The successful candidate will be a keen technologist with strong engineering and mathematical skills. The candidate will also be able to demonstrate past experience of working successfully within and across teams and also that they are a self-starter who can work independently.
    A strong interest in the financial industry is essential.

    Skills Required:
    Commercial systems programming experience using Java or Perl
    Database development (Preferably Sybase)
    Unix/Linux – Ksh scripting experience

    Skills Desired:
    Experience of Kdb+/q
    Business knowledge of derivatives risk
    Experience of Qlikview development

    Requirements

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  • Equity/Equity Derivatives Business Analyst, Highly Competitive – London, UK

    A leading Global Investment bank with significant reach and reputation is seeking to hire an exceptional Front Office Business Analyst who is going to be responsible for the delivery of business analysis for `Cash Equities` front office, facing off to the single stock business. The role will focus on care trading and the set of related systems used globally across equities …

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  • IR Derivatives Trading Strategy C++ Developer, $175,000 + bonus – New York City, USA

    My client is the Leading US Investment Bank, with an amazing global reputation for its dominance and huge profits in the global fixed income markets. My client is the Leading US Investment Bank, with an amazing global reputation for its dominance and huge profits in the global fixed income markets, as well as its strength in cutting edge technology. Through continued business growth, the …

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  • Trader – Cocoa, Soft Commodities, Derivatives, Highly Competitive – Bedfordshire, UK

    A leading international energy and soft commodities trading house is looking for a cocoa trader to join the team. The role will not be confined purely to trading as origination, sales and analyst responsibilities will also be a part of the role. Experience within cocoa is essential

    Responsibilities
    * Trading cocoa on the futures markets
    * Chocolate
    * Analyse the cocoa markets
    * …

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  • Quantitative Equity derivatives strategist, Highly Competitive – London, UK

    A tier 1 investment bank are currently expanding their equity derivatives research team with a hire in London. This is an active hire and the manager is looking to secure the hire in the coming weeks. This is an VP level hire however the hiring manager with consider extremely bright associate level applicants with solid experience within equity derivatives research. All applicants must have …

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