Commodities Quant – Front Office – Associate/AVP – Leading Investment Bank – Energy, Gas, Agricultural and Metals Commodities Pricing
JOB DESCRIPTION
A global Investment Bank is proactively seeking a Associate/AVP candidate to join there Commodities Derivatives team. The ideal candidate will provide hands on front office support to traders, quant researchers and work proactively with the Commodities team. The candidate should demonstrate strong quantitative methods, problem solving abilities and excellent communication skills.
Those that will be successful in this position will be able to work with derivatives pricing models, create prototypes and enhance current models. As a AVP hire, this needs to be someone who is academically qualified, with a Ph.D/M.S.. in a quantitative subject from a top tier university. The pace of culture is academically challenging, extensively collaborative and an opportunity for one to get involved with one of the best investment banks in the country.
Location: New York, USA
The role:
- Develop NEW commodities pricing models and implement them in C++.
- Implement products using pricing engines and models.
- Day to day support to the Commodities Trading Desk
- Articulate model behavior and predictions to traders, identify risk and provide analyses of scenarios.
- Prototype pricing models for Liquid Natural Gas, Energy, Coal, Heat and Agricultural etc.
- Develop pricing and calibration tools
Requirements:
- Only a Ph.D./M.S. in a quantitative field must apply.
- Excellent C++ programming skills.
- Knowledge and professional experience with stochastic processes, partial differential equations, numerical analyst and probability theory.
- Excellent communication skills in order to express complicated methodologies to the business.
In return they are offering:
- Opportunity to join one of the largest Investment Banks in the world.
- Huge opportunity to join a front office growing team in the rate industry.
- Competitive compensation, Intellectual stimulation, team environment.
- Exposure to a very cutting edge team, seeking to find new approaches rates products.
Key words: Commodities, Coal, Gas, Natural Gas, Agriculture, Quant, Ph.D., Associate - AVP, pricing models, C++, Front Office, flows, calibration tools, stochastic, PDE
This is an immediate hire, interviews are to begin soon and early application is advised. GQR also welcomes tentative enquiries from suitably qualified individuals.
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