Fundamental Equity Analyst - Options Market Making

Fundamental Equity Analyst - Options Market Making (Central Research)

Location: New York City
Compensation: Competitive base + performance bonus
Representing: A global, top-tier market making firm and one of the highest-volume liquidity providers across listed markets.

The Opportunity

We are partnering with a premier global market maker to hire a Fundamental Analyst into a centralized research function embedded within the trading organization, supporting an established options market making / volatility trading group.

This is a differentiated seat at the intersection of deep fundamental equity research and semi-systematic options trading. Your work will directly inform how traders size conviction, frame catalysts, and express views through options-helping enhance signal quality, risk selection, and event positioning within a fast-paced, highly technical trading environment.

What You'll Do

• Produce high-conviction fundamental research on single-name equities with a clear emphasis on catalysts, earnings, and event-driven inflections that matter for volatility and options pricing.
• Build and maintain investment theses that translate into tradeable volatility frameworks (directional vs. vol, skew, term structure, event premia).
• Partner daily with options traders/strategists to overlay fundamental insights onto semi-systematic trading strategies-improving conviction, scenario definition, and risk/reward mapping.
• Develop a repeatable workflow for identifying and monitoring corporate events, idiosyncratic drivers, and thematic factors that can impact implied/realized volatility and positioning.
• Synthesize inputs quickly (newsflow, filings, earnings, industry checks) into actionable, trader-ready outputs: previews, recaps, scenario trees, and "what matters" notes.
• Contribute to a collaborative research platform-helping standardize models, dashboards, watchlists, and post-mortems for continuous learning.

The Profile

We're looking for a research athlete who can convert fundamentals into tradeable conviction. Ideal candidates often come from: sell-side equity research, buyside fundamental seats, event-driven/volatility pods, or adjacent trading-support research roles.

Required / strongly preferred:

• 2-6 years of experience in fundamental equity research (ideally with exposure to options markets).
• Demonstrated ability to form a view and communicate it crisply-especially around catalysts and scenarios.
• Strong accounting/financial statement fluency; comfort building/owning models and key drivers.
• Intellectual curiosity + speed: ability to handle multiple names/events in parallel in a live trading environment.
• Clear communication style suited to traders: concise, decisive, probability-weighted thinking.

Nice to have:

• Exposure to options/volatility (even if informal): understanding implied vol, skew, event vol, positioning.
• Experience in event-driven investing or earnings/catalyst-centric coverage.
• Comfort working with data tools (Excel/VBA, Python, SQL, BI tools) to streamline workflows.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Front-office seat inside the trading team with direct impact on P&L decision-making.
• A true hybrid of fundamental research + volatility expression-rarely offered in a pure market making platform.
• Centralized mandate supporting a sophisticated options group-broad exposure, steep learning curve, high standards.
• Base + bonus structure aligned with contribution and outcomes.

How to Apply (Confidential)

If you're excited by the idea of producing fundamental research that directly feeds an options trading machine, we'd welcome a confidential discussion. Please apply directly or reach out to our team for more details on remit, coverage universe, and comp structure.