Sunday, 27 October 2013

Quantitative Analyst - Interest Rates

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  • Company

    Comprehensive Recruiting
  • Location

    USA-NY-New York City
  • Remuneration

    Outstanding compensation and benefit package.
  • Position Type

    Permanent
  • Employment type

    Full time
  • Updated

    27-Oct-2013
  • eFC Ref no

    1190700
Global financial firm is looking to add a Quant Analyst with strong experience in Interest Rates to their Quantitative Risk Management Group.
This person will be part of a strong group that is responsible for designing, developing and testing new models and enhancing the firm's existing models. Additional responsibilities for the role include identifying risk issues related to Interest Rates; building, enhancing and validating Interest Rate Models, pricing models and risk models to support the business.  This person will participate in the development of risk management tools (Greeks, stress test, back test).  Additionally this person will design and develop risk and pricing models across various fixed income classes.
Requirements for the role include a PhD in a quantitative field along 2-5 years of financial experience with strong knowledge and experience with Interest Rates.  Candidates must have a strong knowledge in quantitative finance such as term structure models, volatility models, options pricing, Monte Carlo simulation, binomial and trinomial tree and finite difference methods.  Strong knowledge of risk models such as VaR, expected shortfall and Greeks. Must have a strong understanding of various financial products, market conventions and risk management.  Candidates must have an exceptionally strong math background with experience in probability theory, stochastic processes, time series, etc. Experience with C++ and/or SQL preferred.

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