Standard Chartered
Associate Director, FX Options Trader - (Job Number: 2300015494)
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Job Description
- Req#: 2300015494
- As defined in Business Responsibilities below (risk manage and price FX Options).
- Apply the Bank’s business strategy to day to day customer flow, pricing, risk management, Idea generation
- Assist in developing and implementing strategy for FX Options in Europe
- Assist in enhancing the risk management tools and systems for FX Option books
- Assist in training the team members on the knowledge and risk management
- Identify business development opportunities by developing and marketing the volatility and correlation product suite
- Maximise total product income by ensuring effective end to end client risk management/service
- Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role
- Generate revenue for the bank through trading FX options
- Communicate with Global FXO team updating relevant book-runners in case of significant market events as per desk procedures.
- Help SCB gain a foothold and build a solid foundation in the Flow FXO and structured and correlation space through competitive pricing, market commentaries and idea generation in FX Options
- Understand wider business, economic and market environment in which the firm operates
- Deepen existing client relationships through regular conversations and by giving market colour in line with guidelines
- To work with Sales and RM to market the options product suite, identify new prospects and client opportunities.
- To explore new products and structures to increase the breadth and depth of the market
- Manage risk from client trades
- Seek and take advantage of market opportunities
- Will strengthen experience in market-making and risk-managing flow vanilla and first generation products.
- Robust up-to-date Macro understanding of G10 and likely impact on relevant FX markets
- Investments
- Customer Behaviour and Preferences
- Financial Mathematics
- Market Risk
- Trading
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
- Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
- Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
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