Sales Associate
Equities & Derivatives is an award-wining division setting global standards of excellence. We’ve received a number of distinguished industry awards over the last few years, including Euromoney 2006 Best Global Structured Products House and Risk Magazine’s Equity Derivatives House of the Year.
What you’ll do:
In the Sales team, we offer a complete range of solutions and products to enable clients such as hedge funds, asset managers and private banks to conduct and optimise their day-to-day investments and risk management activities.
The areas we cover include equity and listed derivatives executions, vanilla and exotic options and all types of volatility solutions, portfolio and stocks financing, protection, structuring and performance enhancement. As Equities and Derivatives is a global business for global clients, our sales teams are based in five major financial centres with a mix of regional and product responsibilities.
Working closely with senior sales people and covering hedge funds, asset managers, pension funds and related institutional investors, you’ll use equity derivatives for investment and hedging purposes. Your primary responsibilities will include modelling transactions, conducting quantitative research, preparing client materials and assisting with trade executions.
What you’ll need:
You should hold an MBA, ME, MS, MFE or PhD in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or Physics.
We’ll be looking for solid quantitative, analytical and strategic-thinking skills together with proven expertise in investment banking, corporate finance or a related financial services function.
You should also have excellent communication, team-working and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on large-scale projects. If you have previous professional experience in the financial services industry, that would be an advantage.
