Equity Derivatives Strategist recruitment

As Senior Equity Derivatives Strategist, you will be responsible for maintaining several publications based on your own models and our in-house quantitative research.

You have a proven history of creating, developing and maintaining innovative models to identify profitable trade opportunities. It is expected that you’re capable of communicating with clients and are able to generate bespoke research and trade ideas at their request.

Candidates must possess an entrepreneurial spirit and be able to self-start along with a strong ability to work with a close knit team of experienced professionals with a proven track record. 

Strategists are key participants, together with sales people and the price discovery team, in revenue generating activities of our Sales division.

Responsibilities include:

• Create and maintain models to price derivatives

• Create and maintain to models to identify trade opportunities

• Support sales traders on a broad range of derivatives products (plain vanilla options, futures, ETFs)

• Identify profitable trading opportunities working together with our quantitative analyst and technical analyst and through market analyses

• Perform quantitative market analyses

• Pitch trading ideas to clients

• Produce daily sales and market commentary, working together with analysts and sales traders

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience as a strategist or similar role

• Bsc or Msc in a quantitative field

• Extensive knowledge of derivatives products

• Strong quantitative background

• Strong programming skills (Excel, VBA, MatLab, C++)

• Ability to discuss, communicate and simplify complex derivatives matter

• Strong communication skills, verbally and written

• Team player

Company description:

Founded in 1991, Sunrise Brokers is a global leader in listed and OTC derivative products and has been ranked as the number 1 equity derivative broker globally by Risk Magazine for 5 years consecutively. With offices in London, New York and Hong Kong, the Company offers market leading broking services across equity, credit, hybrid and commodity derivative asset classes and convergence analytics and execution in cash equities. Thanks to our extensive market knowledge, innovative culture and strong historical client relationships, we have become the principal interdealer broker in both exotic and vanilla equity derivative instruments