Job Description
Join our dynamic finance team as an Equity Options Data Analyst at Global Financial Partners. We're urgently seeking a detail-oriented professional to transform complex options market data into actionable insights that drive our trading strategies and risk management decisions. This high-impact role requires deep analytical skills and passion for financial markets.
What you'll do:
Analyze equity options pricing models, volatility surfaces, and Greeks to identify market inefficiencies.
Develop automated data pipelines for real-time options market data ingestion and validation.
Collaborate with traders to design custom analytics dashboards for position monitoring.
Conduct ad-hoc analysis on option strategy performance and market events.
Maintain data quality frameworks for options datasets across multiple exchanges.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement automated data pipelines for options market data from CBOE, NYSE, and Nasdaq
- Analyze options pricing models, implied volatility surfaces, and risk metrics (delta, gamma, vega)
- Develop Tableau/Power BI dashboards for real-time options position monitoring
- Perform backtesting of option strategies using Python/R and historical data
- Identify anomalies in options pricing and trading patterns
- Document data methodologies and maintain data dictionaries
- Collaborate with quantitative analysts to refine options valuation models
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in equity options data analysis or quantitative finance
- Expert proficiency in SQL and Python (Pandas, NumPy)
- Strong understanding of options pricing models (Black-Scholes, Binomial)
- Experience with market data vendors (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, or similar)
- Advanced skills in data visualization (Tableau/Power BI)
- Familiarity with risk management frameworks (VaR, Greeks)
- Ability to work in fast-paced financial environment with tight deadlines