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Securities, Equity Derivatives Automation Strats, Vice President, London
Goldman Sachs
London, , United Kingdom
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
YOUR IMPACT
We are looking for a new Vice President to join our desk strats team and work across our range of systems and applications which are vital to the daily activity of our Equity Derivatives businesses. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team and help to transform the way we price, trade and risk manage Equity Derivatives products at Goldman Sachs.
OUR IMPACT
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.
We are a team of desk strats who work to transform the Equities business at Goldman Sachs by automating the key decisions taken every day. Our team has a wide remit including automatic quoting, optimizing hedging decisions and developing algorithms to trade equity derivatives on European exchanges. We also deploy statistical analysis techniques and mathematical models to enhance the decision making process, with the overall aim of improving business performance while working closely with traders and salespeople on the trading floor.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
• Automate pricing, distribution and hedging of Equity Derivatives products in real time systems used for fast and high volume processing
• Design, develop and support highly reliable systems across a range of technologies in a structured, disciplined and fast-moving environment
• Improve execution quality and automated decision making with a focus on data analysis and a scientific approach to systems development
• Maintain a strong understanding of the full range of Equity Derivatives products from simple options through to structured products. Understand pricing considerations, risk measures, PnL and the hedging process.
• Pro-actively automate business workflows and improve or build highly reliable tools which support the day to day operation of our Equity Derivatives trading desk
• Work closely with trading, sales, technology and operations teams as part of project work and support responsibilities
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Masters degree in a quantitative, computer science or engineering degree.
• Exceptional programming skills in an object oriented or functional language (for example Java/C++/Python/Scala).
• At least 5 years software engineering experience in a revenue focused environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An understanding of Equity Derivatives products pricing, risk and trading
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience programming distributed or low latency systems
• Experience with statistical analysis of computational or business data
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