Director/Associate Director - Derivatives Trader

Total Experience: 10 - 20 years

Key Responsibilities:

• Experience to execute institutional orders in Futures & Options across Indian equity derivatives markets.
• Manage end-to-end order execution and trade lifecycle for institutional clients.
• Execute trades on NSE IX and other relevant IFSC trading platforms.
• Develop and implement trading strategies based on market conditions, liquidity, volatility and client requirements.
• Manage F&O positions, exposures and risk limits within the firm's approved trading framework.
• Monitor market movements, price action, volumes, open interest, volatility and other relevant market indicators.
• Provide efficient and timely execution while optimizing pricing, liquidity and transaction costs.
• Work closely with institutional clients, counterparties and internal trading/operations teams.
• Understand institutional client requirements and provide appropriate execution solutions across derivatives products.
• Identify opportunities to increase trading volumes, client activity and revenue from the GIFT City platform.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of new derivatives trading strategies and products.
• Maintain strong relationships with institutional clients and support business development through market insights and execution capabilities.
• Coordinate with Operations, Technology, Risk and other internal teams to ensure smooth post-trade processing and settlement.
• Monitor trading performance, P&L, volumes and revenue and provide regular management reports.
• Stay abreast of developments in Indian equity derivatives, F&O markets, NSE IX and institutional trading practices.

Candidate Profile:

• Strong hands-on experience in Equity Futures & Options trading.
• Proven experience in institutional order execution and handling sophisticated client orders.
• Exposure to NSE IX / GIFT City trading will be strongly preferred.
• Experience with institutional clients, FIIs/FPIs, funds, asset managers or large HNIs will be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of derivatives markets, including Futures, Options, spreads, hedging and volatility-based strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to generate trading volumes and contribute to revenue/P&L.
• Strong market understanding with excellent analytical and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to independently manage trading activities in a fast-paced market environment.
• Strong communication and relationship-management skills.
• High level of ownership, integrity and commercial orientation.

Qualification:

• Grad / Post Grad