Quantitative Analyst - C++ Commodities or Murex

CLIENT

The Financial Engineering (FE) team supports the trading, sales and risk departments across all asset classes in London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

FE ischarged with the development of models, pricing tools and system integration of all exotic models used in the firm, on all asset classes. Their models and tools support the trading and risk functions of several different desks via in-house developed applications run on traders’ desktops, compute grids and external cloud compute fabrics.

OVERVIEW

Provide the business (Global Market Commodities, Global Structured Credit Solutions) with flexible, scalable and taylored user software applications where proximity developments and resources are necessary. Main users are front office (trading, sales and structuring) but the team also provides tools to control and support (Middle office, Marpl, back office, trade support) teams when necessary.

The team contributes in designing and implementing a resilient, efficient and scalable Information System for GMC, in close cooperation with other relevant IT, business and operational teams in London and worldwide.

As part of the GMC IT department, the team follows its governance.

PROFILE

Functional / Technical Competencies

- Murex experience
- Ideally knowledge in Commodities
- C++

Work Experience

• Experience in front office, risk or model validation.

Education / Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in relevant area.

Very good to have

• Good mathematical and financial modelling skills in rates e.g. understanding of HW, local and stochastic vol models.
• Good knowledge in numerical methods and Monte Carlo valuation (e.g. variance reduction techniques, greeks computation…)

Personal requirements

• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.
• Strong problem-solving and numerical skills.
• A creative and innovative approach to work.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.