Graduate Equity Analyst (2027 Start)

Optiver’s Equity Options Trading team is looking for Graduate Equity Analysts to help shape our fundamental research-driven trading.

As an Equity Analyst at Optiver you will use current events and fundamental research to influence the team’s trading decisions. You will sit directly on the trading floor and work in close collaboration with Traders, Quantitative Researchers and Developers to creatively solve problems and identify new trading opportunities. You will also put on research-backed trades based on your own analysis, giving you direct ownership of your best ideas and rapid feedback from the market.

You will begin with structured training through the Optiver Academy for Equity Analysts. As your market knowledge and judgement develop, you will take increasing ownership of company coverage, research ideas and research-backed trading positions.

• Identify fundamentally driven trading opportunities and work with traders to capture them, focusing on maximising your impact on overall desk PnL.

• Think probabilistically and perform scenario analysis for relevant upcoming events and catalysts. Analyse time sensitive headlines for companies within your coverage sectors and assess their potential impact on volatility and/or stock prices.

• Assist in the growth of our fundamental research team by developing processes, identifying new areas of market inefficiencies and building relevant industry networks.

• Use AI-enabled tools, supported by training, to organise and analyse news, events and company information, applying your own judgement to validate their output and improve the research tooling.

What you’ll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool.

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.

• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.

• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.

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