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    Goldman Sachs

    Financial Services

    Global Banking & Markets, Volatility and Exotics Trader, Analyst, Tokyo

    Tokyo, JapanOn-SiteFull-time1+ yrs experiencePosted 3w ago
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    Job description

    Global Banking & 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.

    APAC Volex Trading is responsible for market making in a wide range of interest rate option products, including swaptions and other exotic instruments. In addition to Asian G3 currencies (JPY, AUD, and NZD), the team also covers other major G10 currencies, including USD and EUR.

    Our clients are primarily institutional investors, encompassing a diverse range of entities such as banks, securities firms, insurance companies, asset managers, hedge funds, and corporations.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Managing risks of existing portfolios
    • Market making for new transactions
    • Developing and marketing new products
    • Improving various trading and pricing tools
    • Coordinating with Strategists, Sales, Structuring, Federation, and other teams to refine strategies and drive business initiatives.

    Required Qualifications:

    • Relevant Master's degree in a quantitative field with an excellent academic record
    • Minimum 1 year experience in sell-side derivative trading
    • Knowledge of risk management, trade execution, and derivative models
    • Ability to thrive and perform in challenging, high-pressure environments
    • Attention to detail
    • Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to perform highly in a team
    • Strong problem-solving skills with a keen ability to think critically in evolving market conditions
    • Strong technical/analytical/quantitative skills
    • Solid work ethic and high level of motivation

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Proficiency in Japanese is a plus
    • Prior experience on an interest rate options desk

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Goldman Sachs

    Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems. We develop cutting-edge systems and processes that form the core of our key business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds. We provide real-time access to critical deal information and crunch billions of data points each day to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies. Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.

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