Director; Senior Trader

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

Director, Senior Trader at Bank of America focusing on fixed income and foreign exchange products for Latin American countries. Responsibilities include market pricing, risk management, executing transactions, and providing market color and trading strategies to clients. Requires a Master's degree and 4 years of experience in derivatives pricing, hedging, and market analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide competitive market prices for the bank’s clients, both local and domestic, in a number of fixed income and foreign exchange products related to Latin American countries.
  2. Proactively manage the risk arising from client transactions in the market.
  3. Work independently and be responsible for risk management and trading activities.
  4. Help execute transactions in accordance with established trading strategies and risk parameters.
  5. Apply knowledge of product area including market liquidity and volatility, pricing, and trading/hedging strategies.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related
  • 4 years of experience in the job offered or a related Finance occupation
  • Pricing of interest rate and cross currency derivatives
  • Pricing of local currency sovereign bonds
  • Hedging interest rate and foreign exchange exposure
  • Interpreting macro economical and geopolitical events
  • Proposing trading strategies

What the JD emphasized

  • Master's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related: and
  • 4 years of experience in the job offered or a related Finance occupation.
  • Must include 4 years of experience in each of the following:
  • Performing and reviewing pricing of all related interest rate and cross currency derivatives involving local rates and indexes for several Latin American countries, including Chile and Colombia;
  • Assessing and providing pricing for local currency sovereign bonds for Latin American countries, for real money clients both offshore and domestic;
  • Reviewing and hedging the interest rate and foreign exchange exposure arising from client risk taking/hedging activity to capture the profits associated with these activities;
  • Interpreting macro economical and geopolitical events and their consequences to financial markets, in particular interest rate curves to give clients appropriate recommendations for hedging / risk taking ; and,
  • Proposing trading strategies to clients, to implement in the Latin American interest rate space for them to trade with and expand their business franchise.