Vice President, Convertible Bond Trader

Job Description:

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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
As a Junior Trader on the Convertible Bond Trading Desk, you will support senior traders in risk management, execution, and market analysis across global convertible bond markets. You will work closely with trading, sales, research, and operations teams to help deliver liquidity, pricing, and hedging solutions to institutional clients. This role is designed to build strong product knowledge, execution skills, and risk awareness within a fast-paced trading environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support day-to-day trading and risk management of convertible bond positions
• Assist with execution of convertible bonds, equity hedges, and related derivatives
• Monitor and help manage delta, gamma, vega, credit, and interest-rate exposures
• Track borrow availability, financing costs, and dividend risk for equity hedges
• Analyze relative value across convertibles, equities, options, and credit instruments
• Provide market color and liquidity updates to senior traders and sales
• Maintain and update risk, P&L, and position reports
• Support lifecycle management of trades from booking through settlement
• Assist in identifying trading opportunities driven by volatility, corporate actions, or capital markets activity
• Collaborate with operations, risk, and technology teams to ensure accurate trade processing
• Develop product knowledge through live trading exposure and mentorship from senior traders

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Strong interest in convertible bonds, equity derivatives, and capital markets
• Understanding of equity, options, and fixed-income fundamentals
• Comfort working with risk metrics such as delta, gamma, vega, and credit spreads
• Proficiency with Bloomberg and Excel for market monitoring and analysis
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving trading environment
• Clear communication skills and willingness to learn from senior team members

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - ONE BRYANT PARK - BANK OF AMERICA TOWER (NY1100)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$200,000.00 - $225,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

Client-provided location(s): New York, NY

Job ID: BankOfAmerica-JR-26007811

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-03-11T19:15:34