London/NYC: Product Specialist (FX & Commodities)

Locations: LONDON OR NYC

This institution is a global financial services firm who have grown 600% in the past 5 years. They have an excellent working model and have a very dynamic and entrepreneurial environment. The teams are very inetractive both internally and externally (with buy-side clients) offer huge potential for career progression within this organisation. 

Department overview:

The Portfolio Valuations department provides an independent, post-trade valuation service to buy-side institutions globally, covering vanilla and exotic derivatives, cash instruments and structured notes across all asset classes. 

Position summary
The Portfolio Valuations department is looking for a talented and motivated individual to work within its FX and commodity product team. This role will involve the maintenance, expansion and promotion of FX and commodity derivative valuation capabilities. Responsibilities would include collection and monitoring of market data, development of pricing models, and communication of methodology to clients.

Duties accountabilities
Working on the quantitative, analytical and technological development of FX and commodity valuation capabilities
Provide on-going communication to our clients on any issues relating to FX or commodity derivative valuations
Enhancing existing models or specifying / building / testing models to support new asset classes within the product.
Ensure the quality and reliability of market data inputs and calibrations for the pricing of all instruments within FX and commodity derivatives
Working closely with other product groups and the global sales team in order to participate in driving the business and identifying product opportunities.

Education and experience
Master’s degree in a financial or quantitative discipline preferred
Ideally 3-7 years proven experience in the commodity or FX derivatives market with some direct experience in structuring / trading / valuations.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Proficiency in Excel, VBA, XML and SQL.

Commercial awareness
Understanding of commodity or FX markets including participants, conventions, operations and commercials
Knowledge of global regulatory requirements would be useful

Personal
Must be detail-oriented, thorough and able to use one’s own initiative to solve problems
Strong skills required to be able to communicate effectively with external clients and across business units within the company.
Ability to function in a collaborative setting with other roles such as operational analysts and developers

Please apply into the Quantexotic Link (below). See the Selby Jennings website for other Quantitative and Risk opportunities.

May 9, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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