Job Description
The Equity Derivatives Sales Desk covers Institutional clients including Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds and Endowments/Foundations for equity derivatives as well as cross-asset risk premia products.
As a Associate on the Equity Derivatives Sales desk, you will be required to be both market and client facing. Your role here also requires execution, technical and market skills, a problem solving approach and ability to combine strategic analysis with tactical idea generation.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support senior marketers in covering clients and in daily functions of the desk
- Provide comprehensive client coverage, including fulfilling client requests for market updates, assisting with the execution of client orders and providing clients with market intelligence and analysis
- Assist in formulating, marketing and executing trade ideas
- Help ensure smooth post trade execution process including accurate booking of risk, trade recaps and post trade enquiries
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Strong communication skills, analytical background and proficiency with excel
- Candidates must be high energy, take initiative, and multi task in a fast paced trading desk environment, while paying attention to detail
- Have strong intellectual curiosity, genuine interest in markets, a high degree of organization and attention to detail, and the ability to perform well under pressure
- Strong knowledge of Bloomberg, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses are required for the role, but can be obtained after joining the team
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Fundamental understanding of Python or VBA is preferred