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Securities, FICC, Commodity Structuring, Vice President, Singapore
Goldman Sachs
Hong Kong, , Hong Kong
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SECURITIES
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.
DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW
Goldman Sachs' Strats business unit is a world leader in developing quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems. Working within the firm's trading, sales, banking and investment management divisions, strats use their mathematical and scientific training to create financial products, advise clients on transactions, measure risk, and identify market opportunities.
ROLES WITHIN SECURITIES STRATS
Securities Strats play important roles in several areas. Some Strats sit on trading desks, creating cutting-edge derivative pricing models and developing empirical models to provide insight into market behavior. Others develop automated trading algorithms for the firm and its clients, taking an active part in the increasing shift from voice to electronic trading. A third group works directly with the firm's sales force and clients, analyzing exposures, structuring transactions, and applying quantitative concepts to meet client needs.
Commodities Strats Work with sales/trading/customers to model and pitch derivatives, physical supply/offtake and logistics management deals and credit/funding structures to Asia commodities clients in relevant markets (power, gas, coal, products, crude, metals).
RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
Responsibilities:
• Partner with sales to pro-actively build relationships and engage with commodities clients
• Identify clients who have commodity and other asset class exposure through market segmentation analysis
• Develop trading ideas, portfolio risk analysis, business trends and hedging opportunities to help drive commercial transactions Work with trading to translate market risks, trends and forecasts into hedge products for commodities clients
• Interact with corporate clients to develop tools and metrics to understand markets, impact on portfolio and measurement of performance
Qualifications:
• Strong academic background in a relevant field - Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Finance
• Knowledge of financial markets / products (commodities and or credit markets)
• Background in analysis for corporate or fund engagement
• Experience working on a trading desk
• Strong programming background in a structured language (SecDB, Slang, C, C++, Java, etc)
• Commercial focus, team oriented, self-motivated
• Ability to solve problems and to explain the ideas that underlie them to clients and colleagues
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.
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