Head of Derivatives business, FICC
A recruiter advertises a FICC derivatives business head role at an unnamed Chinese investment bank. The remit includes pricing, valuation and hedging oversight as well as commercial and team leadership.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Oversee derivative pricing, valuation and hedge decisions.
- Set product and business priorities while managing P&L and risk.
- Lead a team and coordinate trading, structuring and control functions.
What they ask for
Required
- FICC OTC derivative expertise
- Pricing models and hedging
- P&L and team leadership
- Asian regulatory frameworks
- English communication
Preferred
- International-bank background
- Mandarin
- CFA or FRM
- Education
- Bachelor’s required; advanced degree or professional qualification preferred.
- Experience
- Extensive derivatives experience with significant leadership responsibility; minimum years not stated.
- Markets
- fixed-income, fx, credit, commodities
How to prepare
- Review risk and valuation controls across a FICC derivative business.
- Explain model and hedge risks for a new OTC product.
- Prepare a business plan with explicit risk and capital constraints.
What to study
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Unicorn Advisor (HK) Limited and doesn’t handle applications.