Senior Associate – RMBS/CMBS Quant / Trading Strategist, Major Financial Firm, NYC recruitment
You may directly contact: Dirk Himes, The Polaris Group (an Executive Search Firm). Cell 312-961-4811; Dirk@ThePolarisGroupInc.com
Position Requirements:
Candidates must have direct work experience as a structured products quant. Preferably, candidates will have either general structured products backgrounds (various asset classes) or a focused expertise in RMBS.
Also Required Are:
i) Strong programming abilities / database skills (such as: C, C++, Matlab, VBA, SQL, R, Java, Perl, and/or related proficiencies)
ii) A quick intelligence and ability to learn new concepts very quickly
iii) Ability to work efficiently, effectively and without errors (fast and accurate)
iv) Asset class experience – either across asset classes in structured products; or, experience including RMBS and other asset classes; or, experience with only RMBS; or, experience with CMBS and other asset classes
v) Assiduousness
vi) Ability to implement ideas / concepts
vii) Self-confidence - ability to work without supervision
viii) Conceptual thinker - ability to synthesize ideas / concepts and communicate effectively with seniors on the trading desk
ix) Experience at a preeminent platform – buy-side, investment bank, or hedge fund
x) 2-5 years (or more) total work experience
xi) A top-tier academic pedigree – is a plus
Other:
A college degree is required, a top tier school is a plus; a graduate degree with a technical curriculum (computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, quantitative finance), is strongly preferred.
The firm offers an employee benefit package that includes health and insurance coverage and other important benefits including relocation allowance, if applicable.
About The Polaris Group
The Polaris Group, with offices in Chicago, Charlotte, Minneapolis, New York, Tampa, and Charleston, South Carolina, conducts executive search and advisory work for large integrated investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, asset management firms, broker/dealers, insurance companies, and specialty finance firms. The firm’s financial services practice includes various functional areas: banking and structured finance, leveraged finance, derivatives, transaction structuring, modeling, administration, risk management, quantitative algorithmic finance, syndication, trading specialists, fixed income sales/trading; as well as IT, systems technology, and treasury functions (CFO office, Treasury related specialists).