Job Description

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

The Volex trading group is responsible for market-making and trading of a variety of interest rate products, including swaptions and other exotics, on the major developed markets (JPY, AUD, EUR and USD). The team has a very broad range of responsibilities, such as risk managing the existing portfolio and structuring trades to custom-fit the needs of our clients. In particular, the flow trading team has a primary focus on the market making and risk management of flow/vanilla volatility products in JPY and AUD. The main customer base includes but is not limited to banks, insurance companies, money managers, hedge funds, and corporate clients.

Responsibilities:

• Market making for Interest Rate Swaptions and other volex products
• Trade idea generation, risk monitoring, and trade execution
• Risk management of existing portfolios and new trades
• Coordinating with Strategists, Sales, Structuring, Federation, and other teams to refine strategies and drive business initiatives
• Work closely and collaboratively within a team to deliver results at the highest standards

Required Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field with an excellent academic record
• Knowledge of risk management, trade execution, and derivative models
• Ability to thrive and perform in a challenging and high-pressure environments
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communications skills and a demonstrated ability to perform highly in a team
• Strong problem-solving skills with a keen ability to think critically in evolving market conditions
• Strong technical/analytical/quantitative skills
• Solid work ethic and high level of motivation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in VBA preferred but not required
• Proficiency in Japanese will be a plus

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.  

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.  

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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