Currency Options Trader

Mizuho Financial Group

Finance

About this role

The role covers currency-options trading operations, including market making, profit and position management, advancing trading analysis, developing system infrastructure, and promoting projects with other departments and related companies.

The position is in the Financial Markets Department, which handles trading activities. The role involves market making in the Tokyo foreign exchange market and collaboration with overseas offices. The successful candidate will help strengthen currency-options market-making capabilities and may later expand into other market businesses.

Required qualifications include experience managing a currency-options trading book, knowledge of financial mathematics including risk factors and correlations, the ability to conduct analysis using Excel spreadsheets, and business English at TOEIC 650 or above. Preferred qualifications include currency-options trading experience with a revenue track record, knowledge of trading analysis such as relative-value analysis, further financial mathematics knowledge including financial engineering and stochastic analysis, and business English at TOEIC 800 or above.

The position is a permanent employee role in Tokyo. The initial probationary period is six months with the same salary. Standard working hours are 8:40 to 17:10, with 7.5 scheduled working hours and a 60-minute break; flextime may apply depending on the department. The role has weekends, public holidays, and year-end and New Year holidays off, with 21 days of annual paid leave subject to the hiring month in the first year. Overtime and holiday work may be required.

Salary is determined under company regulations based on ability and suitability. Commuting expenses and certain meal subsidies are provided according to company rules. Social insurance, a stock ownership plan, childcare babysitter discounts, housing-related programs, asset-building support, and leisure support are available. The workplace is entirely non-smoking indoors. The work location may be changed to locations designated by the company, including telework locations.

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