Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
Goldman SachsAPAC Volex Trading is responsible for market making in a wide range of interest rate option products, including swaptions and other exotic instruments. In addition to Asian G3 currencies (JPY, AUD, and NZD), the team also covers other major G10 currencies, including USD and EUR. Our clients are primarily institutional investors, encompassing a diverse range of entities such as banks, securities firms, insurance companies, asset managers, hedge funds, and corporations. Key responsibilities include managing risks of existing portfolios, market making for new transactions, developing and marketing new products, improving various trading and pricing tools, and coordinating with Strategists, Sales, Structuring, Federation, and other teams to refine strategies and drive business initiatives.
- Relevant Master's degree in a quantitative field with an excellent academic record - Minimum 1 year experience in sell-side derivative trading - Knowledge of risk management, trade execution, and derivative models - Ability to thrive and perform in challenging, high-pressure environments - Attention to detail - Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to perform highly in a team - Strong problem-solving skills with a keen ability to think critically in evolving market conditions - Strong technical/analytical/quantitative skills - Solid work ethic and high level of motivation
- Proficiency in Japanese is a plus - Prior experience on an interest rate options desk
- We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance. - We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year. - We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities. - We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices. - To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount). - We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
