Exotic Trade Review - Associate

• Prepare to gain a comprehensive understanding of the life cycle of a trade by interacting with traders, strategists, sales, and structurers in addition to middle office, legal, product control and documentation teams in order to work toward the shared goal of risk mitigation
• Partner with a team of product experts to review all economic aspects of derivative trades while gaining strong exotic derivatives knowledge and financial risk awareness
• Showcase your attention to detail by ensuring all trade economics, pay-off profiles and pricing factors are correctly captured in the risk management system
• Use your inquisitive mind set to identify control weaknesses with respect to booking methodology as well as discrepancies in the legal documentation
• Leverage your quantitative skills to deconstruct complex structured payoffs and propose creative, robust booking solutions
• Work in a strong team setting to develop a deeper understanding of complex transactions and work with our business partners to automate and improve our existing processes

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor s degree with 4-7 years of experience in financial services
• Proven analytical skill, problem solving ability and a control mentality paired with meticulous attention to detail
• Aptitude for building relationships and ability to communicate complex issues to a wide array of internal clients with differing levels of product experience
• Self-motivated and proactive team player who takes ownership and accountability of projects, has strong organizational and communication skills and the ability to effectively manage competing priorities
• Flexible and able to work well under pressure in a team environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Quantitative educational background.
• Prior experience working with Structured Products
• Pursuing CFA/FRM