My client is one of the world's largest investment banks, and one of the leaders in the equity derivatives business. We are working with their exotic equities team, who are looking to hire a front office, equity derivatives modelling quant (pricing models, trading support). They are ideally looking to hire a VP and Director level - to assist in substantial growth of this business area.
Responsibilities:
* Participating in modelling, design, and support of the trading and risk infrastructure, in close interaction with Trading.
* desk first point of contact for any equity derivatives modelling topics, maintaining frequent interactions with the desk and monitoring performance of the models on live books.
* Being able to independently identify and propose new modelling approaches and improvements to the existing ones
* Participating in the design, development and support of trading tools and applications.
* Experience working in the financial services industry, ideally some of this being in exotic equity derivatives.
* Experience/proficiency in C++ and/or Python.