VP Structured Products Quant Strategist, Modeling/Programming/Structuring Specialist, 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:
i) Preeminent modeling talent / programming quant skills (such as: C, C++, Matlab, VBA, Intex, SQL, R, Perl, and/or related proficiencies)
ii) Ability to build / modify systems
iii) Very quick intelligence
iv) Excellent communication skills
v) Assiduousness
vi) Ability to get tasks done efficiently and error free (fast and accurate)
vii) Ability to implement ideas / concepts
viii) Self-confidence - ability to work without supervision
ix) Conceptual thinker - ability to synthesize ideas / concepts and communicate effectively with seniors on the trading desk
x) Experience at a preeminent platform – buy-side, investment bank, hedge fund
xi) 4-10 (or more) years experience
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).