Vice-President - Equity Derivatives and QIS Structuring

Business Overview: The Equity Derivatives Structuring team (Americas) is a multi-disciplinary team, centrally positioned within Equity Derivatives and Global Markets Americas. The team is also known as: Global Markets Americas - Equity Derivatives Structuring - GSG Investment Solutions. The Equity Derivatives Structuring team is front-office team that focuses on: · Pricing, and transacting in financial derivatives, including advanced derivatives, as well as Quantitative Investment strategies and specific wrappers (swaps, structured notes, funds). · Acting as derivatives product specialists and generating quantitative analyses to answer requests by salespeople, traders and clients on such products, or initiate product ideas with salespeople, traders and clients. · Researching, designing and creating innovative derivatives products and quantitative investment strategies for clients. · Marketing and creating marketing materials to present such innovative derivatives products and quantitative investment strategies for clients. · Creating, programming and improving quantitative tools and software to perform the above structuring functions. · Collaborating closely with functions on business related to equity derivatives or quantitative financial products: credit risk, market risk, compliance, legal, marketing and other teams as needed. · Client types serviced include: Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Pensions / Endowments / Foundations, Insurance Companies, Distribution, Corporates, both in the Americas and worldwide. The Equity Derivatives Structuring team reports jointly to the Head of Equity Derivatives for Global Markets Americas, and the Head of Structuring (All Asset Classes) for Global Markets Americas. CANDIDATE SUCCESS FACTORS: Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform: Results and Impact Able to influence peers and team. Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact. Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department. Leadership and Collaboration: Creates trust with colleagues. Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs. Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients. Interacts regularly with management and department leaders. Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. Compliance Culture and Conduct: Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts. Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards. RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate at the Vice-President level will have a strong focus on the structuring of financial instruments such as: Equity Derivatives, Hybrid Derivatives and Cross-Asset Quantitative Investment Strategies. The candidate will train be fully operational on such financial instruments as soon as possible. As such, the successful candidate should eventually be able to: · Design, price, market and transact in a range of equity and hybrid derivatives products for Global Markets Americas. · Answer in a timely and accurate manner to requests regarding complex financial derivatives. · Act as a financial and derivative product specialist, interacting and educating Salespeople, Traders and Clients on such derivative products. · Leverage one's quantitative skills, programming skills and knowledge of advanced derivatives to create innovative products suited to market conditions and client needs. · Develop, maintain, market and transact Quantitative Investment Strategies for Global Market Americas, in collaboration with fellow structurers. · Research financial data and financial time series to create innovative Quantitative Investment Strategies suited to market conditions and client needs, leveraging one's quantitative skills, programming skills and understanding of quantitative strategies. · Act as a Quantitative Investment Strategies product specialist, interacting and educating Salespeople, Traders and Clients on such strategies. · Coordinate and/or lead the North America Custom Index Committee for the business. · Coordinate with structuring, support functions (including counterparty credit risk, market risk, compliance, legal, marketing, other asset classes and other regional teams) and trading to support the Sales effort. · Prepare technical product presentations on a range of derivative products and/or Quantitative Investment Strategies. · Present derivative products and Quantitative Investment Strategies to clients (client types include: Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Pensions / Endowments / Foundations, Insurance Companies, Distribution, Corporates). · Contribute to the automation of the platform, including contributing the development of in-house pricing software and proprietary quantitative analysis tools. · Control that the product offering is in line with the BNPP trading capacity and policies. MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS · Strong technical skills including high proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, and VBA. · Strong coding & programming skills in languages such as Python, R and/or Matlab. · Thorough understanding of financial derivatives and stochastic calculus. · Strong Science or Engineering background, preferably Masters Degree in a quantitative or business relevant field. · Experience in financial modeling, quantitative finance, and statistical analysis of financial data. · Multi-tasking skills. · Ability to quickly respond to issues under pressure. · Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. · Strong interpersonal and communication skills. · Strong interest in Finance, Financial Markets, and Quantitative Finance. · At least 3 years of structuring experience at the Associate level or higher (or similar relevant experience) and up to 7-8 years of experience. MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS · Strong technical skills including high proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, and VBA. · Strong coding & programming skills in languages such as Python, R and/or Matlab. · Thorough understanding of financial derivatives and stochastic calculus. · Strong Science or Engineering background, preferably Masters Degree in a quantitative or business relevant field. · Experience in financial modeling, quantitative finance, and statistical analysis of financial data. · Multi-tasking skills. · Ability to quickly respond to issues under pressure. · Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. · Strong interpersonal and communication skills. · Strong interest in Finance, Financial Markets, and Quantitative Finance. · At least 3 years of structuring experience at the Associate level or higher (or similar relevant experience) and up to 7-8 years of experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to above: · High GPA. · Knowledge of Financial Econometrics. · Knowledge of Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. · Knowledge of Bloomberg, Reuters / Refinitiv or similar market data tool. FINRA REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED: Series 7, 63 (may be obtained on the job - within 60 days of start date) CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): No SEC SECURITY-BASED SWAP DEALER ASSOCIATED PERSON No The expected starting salary range for this position in New York is between $225,000 - 250,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location. ABOUT BNP PARIBAS: BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. In the United States, BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking (Opens in a new tab) activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world. The bank employs nearly 6,000 people and has a presence in the country since the late 1800s in major cities including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Washington, DC. As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose - to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World - (Opens in a new tab) BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status. PRIMARY LOCATION US-New York JOB TYPE Standard / Permanent JOB MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATION LEVEL Bachelor Degree or equivalent (>= 3 years) EXPERIENCE LEVEL At least 5 years SCHEDULE Full-time REFERENCE EQD000715 APPLY (REF: EQD000715) (OPENS IN A NEW TAB)

Created: 2024-11-15