Senior Block Options Trader

GTS
New York, NY
Category Finance
Job Description
Role Overview

The role will provide liquidity and risk-transfer solutions to institutional, broker-dealer and wealth-management counterparties across single-name and ETF options.

What You Will Do

Price, facilitate and execute large and complex single-name and ETF options transactions, provide competitive markets for institutional inquiries, and assume and actively manage options risk.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 5-10+ years of professional listed-options trading experience, expertise in listed-options pricing, and the ability to make rapid risk and capital decisions with incomplete information.

Requirements

  • 5-10+ years of professional listed-options trading experience
  • deep expertise in listed-options pricing, volatility, skew, term structure and Greeks
  • demonstrated experience pricing complex transactions and managing meaningful options risk
  • strong knowledge of single-stock and ETF options markets
  • strong quantitative judgment and the ability to make rapid risk and capital decisions with incomplete information
  • commercial mindset and credibility with sophisticated institutional counterparties
  • ability to partner effectively across trading, sales, quantitative, technology and risk teams
  • existing relationships with wirehouse, wealth-management, institutional or broker-dealer options desks are highly desirable

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with generous employer contribution for employees and dependents
  • 401k match
  • Daily Meal Allowance
  • Equinox Corporate Membership Rate
  • Snacks
  • Office Game Room
  • Casual Dress
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