VP/ Director
JOB DESCRIPTION
A global U.S. Investment Bank is proactively seeking a VP-Director candidate to join their Structured Credit Derivatives team. The ideal candidate will provide hands on front office support to traders, quant researchers and work proactively within the credit 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 senior hire, this needs to be someone who is academically qualified, with a top Masters/PhD 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 finest quant teams on the street.
Location: London, UK
The role:
- Detailed review of front office pricing models
- Developing and implementing Credit derivative pricing models
- Chance to work on a variety of complex CDO, CLO, structured products
- Working entirely in their Front Office alongside quant’s trade specialists
- Support traders, research strategies and quantitative ideologies to a large degree
- Reporting directly to the Global Head of Credit Derivatives based locally
- Prototype pricing models for CDO’s, CLO tranches, Structured Credit Products, etc.
Requirements:
- 5years+ Quantitative structured Credit experience
- Knowledge of “Intex” is desirable
- An excellent quantitative PhD/MSc from a top school in a very quant focused thesis: Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Statistics Probability, Electrical Engineering, Financial Engineering etc
- 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 most prestigious Investment Banks in central London.
- Huge opportunity to join arguably the leading credit group on the street.
- Competitive compensation, Intellectual stimulation, team environment.
- Exposure to a very cutting edge team, seeking to find new approaches to credit products.
This is an immediate hire, interviews are to begin soon and early application is advised. GQR also welcomes tentative enquiries from suitably qualified individuals.
Key words: Credit, Structured Credit, Cash CLO’s, Cash CDO’s, Quant, Ph.D., VP-SVP, pricing models, C++, Front Office, derivatives pricing, calibration tools, stochastic, PDE, Intex, quantitative analytics, quantitative pricing, quant development, strategist, quant strat, quant pricing group, quantitative derivatives modeling, global analytics library
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