Global Markets - Systematic Strategies Trading Assistant

Job description

BNP Paribas is a leading European bank with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 192,000 employees – including more than 146,000 in Europe and over 4,000 in Portugal alone.
BNP Paribas is present in Portugal since 1985, having been one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, BNP Paribas has several entities operating directly in this territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses.
Worldwide, the Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

The Systematic Strategies is part of Complex Structures and Underlyings (CSU) perimeter, which includes:
· The Systematic Strategies desk: Quantitative strategies & Custom indices business on equities, FX and rate underlying (vanilla strategies, vol control, thematic equities indices, rolling futures…).
· Hybrids desk: Structured products on Cross Assets including underlying on Equities, FX, IR, Bonds, Credit or Commodities.
· Funds Derivatives desk: Structured products on UCITS funds.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Help on the various books management process including:
· the begin of day,
· Risks analysis,
· P&L explanation,
· Compute of forecast and reshuffling position
· end of day,…
· Check the financial terms of the client's transaction and validate payoffs and flows.
· Perform Coral and Mobilis Check
· Help and support the desk by providing various market watch analysis
· Implied parameters reports (vol, div, repo,…)
· Compare and analyse our custom indices to their benchmarks.
· Help on internal and IDB booking
· On the additive trades internally or within other GBLs.
· Booking IDB trades.
· Perform checks on the books:
· Barrier crossing
· Exercises and callabilities
· Expiries.

PROFILE

· To have decent (financial) quantitative and IT knowledge.
· To be highly motivated and interested by the exotic trading environment.
Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.