Global Markets Division, Equity Derivatives Strats, Analyst/Associate, Singapore

GLOBAL MARKETS

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.

In Goldman Sachs quantitative strategists are a the cutting edge of our businesses, solving real-world problems through a variety of analytical methods. Working in close collaboration with traders and sales, strats' invaluable quantitative perspectives on complex financial and technical challenges power our business decisions.

We are a team of desk strategists who work to transform the FICC and Equity Derivatives businesses 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 derivatives on venues around the world. 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.

Role Responsibilities

• Automate pricing of derivative products, providing fast and accurate prices in response to quote requests from our clients
• Implement automated hedging algorithms, and build frameworks to manage risk centrally across asset classes
• Perform systematic and quantitative analysis of franchise flows and market data, driving business decisions and the design of our automation platform
• Work closely with sales and trading, support our automated pricing and trading systems
• Be involved with all stages of the software development life cycle with a range of technologies, and collaborate closely with engineering teams who support the underlying infrastructure and frameworks

Basic Qualifications

• Excellent academic record in a relevant quantitative field such as physics, mathematics, statistics, engineering or computer science
• Strong programming skills in an object oriented or functional paradigm such as C++, Java or Python
• At least 2 years’ experience
• Self-starter with strong self-management skills, ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a high-pressure environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing predictive statistical models, particularly non-linear regression/classification problems and Bayesian methods (hierarchical models, dynamic models, filtering etc)
• Previous quantitative or technical role working on or with a derivatives trading desk (irrespective of asset class)
• Knowledge of building automated trading systems and researching signals for use in a live trading environment

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