Securities Division, Equities, Equity Derivative Sales, Associate/Vice President, Hong Kong

YOUR IMPACT

Looking for an ambitious, motivated and hard-working team player to cross-sell best-in-class ideas and solutions and to build long-term relationships with our institutional clients, specifically sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, pension funds and insurance companies.

OUR IMPACT

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.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Team Description

The Equity Derivatives Sales team works with a variety of clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, and sovereign wealth funds, that use derivatives and other structured solutions to achieve their investment objectives.

Within the broader Equity Derivatives Sales team, the Global Institutional team covers a wide range of investors across the globe with a specific focus on Sovereign Wealth Funds, Asset Managers, Pension Funds and Insurance Companies.

The team is focused on providing multiple layers of equities coverage to our institutional clients, including equity swaps, vanilla and exotic options, systematic trading strategies, and various outperformance solutions depending on the client’s diverse needs.

The Institutional Derivative Sales Desk is currently seeking an experienced and dynamic candidate to join our Hong Kong office as Vice President or Associate.

Key Responsibilities

• Distribute best-in-class ideas and solutions to our Institutional Clients, specifically Sovereign Wealth Funds, Asset Managers, Pension Funds & Insurance Companies
• Help identify new business opportunities and originate new client relationships with a strategic and long-term view
• Grow and maintain existing client relationships
• Provide general support to the team by servicing client requests, working closely with trading and structuring on a wide array of derivative and custom solutions, managing internal workflow post-trade with Operations and Credit
• Analyze and back-test trade ideas to deliver bespoke content to clients

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Basic Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification with an excellent academic record 
• 4-8 years of relevant experience
• Client-focused with strategic, long term mind-set
• Strong attention to detail 
• Solid work ethics and high levels of motivation
• Strong technical and mathematical skills as well as an advanced level of proficiency in using pricing tools for derivatives
• Hard working with strong willingness to learn
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation and presentation skills 
• Strong team player
• Commercially-minded
• Working knowledge and interest in global financial markets and derivative instruments

Preferred Qualifications

• Cantonese and Mandarin language skills, both spoken and written
• Entrepreneurial and proactive with good judgment
• Ability to multi-task

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

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