Optiver
Market Risk Graduates & Interns - Expressions of Interest
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Our Risk team at Optiver develops and delivers the risk management activities of the entire firm, in a fast-paced and dynamic trading environment. In this role, you'll help us improve our current risk framework. To keep us at the forefront of an ever-changing trading environment, you'll create and improve risk monitoring tools. You'll analyse risk and market data to solve practical problems.
Through our internship and graduate programs, you will gain a unique insight into the trading environment at a market leading trading firm. You'll develop skills to build your career in the financial markets. You'll experience our passion for continuously developing a risk management mindset across the business. You will be given autonomy, responsibility and the support required to excel. You'll be an integral part of multiskilled team, in a stimulating, adrenaline-filled environment, where work-life balance is valued and great work is rewarded.
Please note, our formal applications for Graduate and Intern opportunities are currently closed. We are seeking expressions of interest for our 2021 campaign and would love to hear from you! Please complete this application to join our Risk 'Talent Community' and ensure that you identify your year of graduation, so that we can keep you up to date with suitable upcoming vacancies.
Optiver embraces diversity and encourages applications from people with a disability. Candidates will have the opportunity to request support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process in order to demonstrate their ability to meet the inherent requirements of the job.
If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please contact us at careers@optiver.com.au.
Reviews
I am a trader. It is my responsibility to make decisions about which trades to make, how to parametrise our systems, and work with other traders and developers to improve our systems
Due to the emphasis on business acumen, employees know about the business impact of what they work on, and why it matters. As a software dev, I work on maintaining and developing software solutions to solve business/compliance problems.
Working with traders to improve the behaviour of auto traders. Very interesting and rewarding. Given a lot of project ownership.
About the employer
Optiver
4.6
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Trading
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Pros and cons of working at Optiver
Pros
The responsibility to work on impactful projects from early on.
The perks - company trip, daily meals, weekly massages.
Opportunities are there for people who want them -- you can very quickly take ownership of a problem or space.
Lots of smart people and interesting problems to solve.
People challenge each other to be best that they can be. There is no blame with errors and every opportunity to learn is taken.
Cons
You will constantly be working on different products, with tight timelines and high ownership.
The finance domain is quite complex, and onboarding/learning about new financial concepts... is challenging.
The expectations are high and constant.
Too many things that could be done.
Can be intense at times