Desk Strategist — Synthetics Product Group ( SPG )

Role Summary

A cross-functional desk strat role sitting alongside trading, focused on pricing, risk, automation, and franchise growth.

Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain derivatives pricing models for Equity Swaps, Futures, OTC Equity Derivatives, and structured payoffs. Expand to new underliers and payoff structures.
- Design automated risk management frameworks for Equity, FX, and other exposures.
- Partner with traders on risk management, P&L; attribution. Act as the bridge between trading, technology, and risk.
- Drive process improvements across pricing, booking, and risk workflows. Support onboarding of existing/new products and markets.

Qualifications

- Strong Programming skills is a must.
- Strong academic background in a relevant STEM field (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or Mathematics)
- Strong interpersonal/communication skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic and fast- paced environment and deliver accurate results quickly
- Ability to solve problems and to explain underlying ideas

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

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.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

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.





Financial Wellness & Retirement

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.

Health Services

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.

Fitness

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).

Child Care & Family Care

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.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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Chance Overview

CORPORATE TITLEAssociate

OFFICE LOCATION(S)Bengaluru

JOB FUNCTIONQuantitative Engineering

DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets

📌 GBM - Public Dept-Bengaluru-Associate-Quantitative Engineering (India)
🏢 Goldman Sachs
📍 India