Lead Foreign Exchange (FX) Quant recruitment

An exceptional opening exists for an experienced Quant to support the global FX and Commodities desks within Global Markets.  The FX and Commodities business compromises a number of trading desks distributed in three global locations trading a wide range of currency and commodity products and interacting with numerous sales teams. 

The team you would be joining is involved in some of the most innovative and exciting work in the Quant/Markets space in Australia.

The quant group assists a wide variety of stakeholders involved in these businesses, including:

• Business Heads and their trading desks 

• Sales Teams distributed globally with support for global pricing platforms, pre-deal analysis, pricing questions, and infrastructure to manage clients.

• Risk and Finance functions with support for intraday and end-of-day VAR publication and the production of a variety of real-time risk reports.

• Technology functions giving assistance for the analytics in all official front office and risk systems.

Qualifications include:

• A degree in a mathematical discipline with a strong understanding to the solution of partial differential equations and aspects of financial mathematics (Master’s level at a minimum)

• Experience working within FX Quant Analysis

• Basic product knowledge of derivatives and derivative pricing.

• Mandatory experience in structured programming language (either one or more of C, C++, Java, or C#) and at least basic level experience with either Access or SQL database usage.  Desirable experience includes familiarity with VBA, Silverlight, web-based client /server programming, and database programming.

• A work history that demonstrates the ability to work constructively as an independent part of a larger inter-disciplinary team.

This role is often about working with a very diverse group of stakeholders and in synthesising solutions to their often unique, but equally important problems.  Personal skills required for  this roll include:

• The ability to work with people to assist them to define their problems in a manageable way.

• The ability to juggle multiple demands on daily basis and to prioritise according to need.

• A commitment to understand and grasp of detail.

• The ability to use mathematics to solve practical problem, to construct software to deploy those solutions, and to then maintain those solutions.

• Comfort with an environment where priorities can change quickly and in unknown ways.

• A willingness to learn new skills quickly and to take over responsibility for an existing roll in leading quant support for these businesses.

To apply or to get more information please email rportman@atticus-search.com or call 0401208754 asking for Richard.