Associate - Trading

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · New York, NY

Associate role at Bank of America focused on trading and risk management activities within financial markets. Responsibilities include executing transactions, maintaining trading limits, ensuring end-of-day accuracy, collaborating on strategies, providing technical support, running PNL, and assisting developers with workflow automation. Requires a Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience in financial trading software, market knowledge, equity derivatives pricing, and Python for data automation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work independently and perform risk management and trading activities with limited direction from more senior staff.
  2. Maintain a scope of activities and authority defined by trading limits, transaction control, and book marking.
  3. In the absence of senior traders, ensure that end-of-day is accurate and reflects our market’s view.
  4. Execute transactions in accordance with established trading strategies and risk parameters.
  5. Collaborate with structuring to contribute to the formulation of long-term strategies used for desk, sales and clients.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance, Economics, Engineering (any), or related field
  • 2 years of experience in financial trading software
  • 2 years of experience in market knowledge in equities, equity derivatives, and other asset classes
  • 2 years of experience in assessing pricing and liquidity of equity derivative products
  • 2 years of experience in automating manual processes with Python

Nice to have

  • Python

What the JD emphasized

  • 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related Quantitative occupation
  • 2 years of experience in each of the following: Using financial trading software to facilitate and execute trades in equity derivatives and other financial products; Using pragmatic market knowledge in equities, equity derivatives, and other asset classes to make trading and hedging decisions; Assessing the pricing and liquidity of different equity derivative products under different economic conditions to provide pricing, trade ideas, and solutions to clients; and, Automating manual processes that require large data sets including Python to prepare customized reports.