Cib - Exotic Rates Trading - Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION** Job Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for market-marking of interest rate exotics products for clients, including retail clients, asset management companies, insurance companies, pension funds and banks.
- Price and execute option and exotics products that include callable step-ups, callable range accrual, CMS curve leveraged steepener, mid-curve options, YCSO curve options, forward volatility agreement and cross-asset hybrids,etc.
- Communicate with clients along with the sales team to understand their investment/hedging requirements and suggest products and trade ideas in sync with their needs.
- Additionally, provide clients updates on market color and key trading flows. Manage the aggregative risk profile of trading book under various market environment scenarios using hedging strategies.
- Partner with the technology and middle office teams to efficiently manage pricing tools, platforms and risk management infrastructure. Work with quantitative research to improve the pricing models controls and risk management systems.

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or other related disciplines
- Minimum 2 years of experience analyzing and/or trading interest rate derivative markets, or related experience
- Good understanding of options pricing analytics and behavior of pricing models and risk management tools
- Strong experience programming in Excel and VBA
- Relevant experience managing interest rate option risks including delta, vega, gamma and theta.

**Preferred Qualifications, capabilities and skills**
- Strong experience trading interest rates swaps, options and exotics markets and knowledge of fixed income products.
- Solid quantitative experience in financial mathematics and derivatives pricing

**ABOUT US**

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.