Quant Desk Strat - Prime Services - New York City - Analyst, Associate, or VP!
WHO WE ARE
THE GLOBAL MARKET DIVISION
In Global Market Division, we help our clients buy and sell financial products around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. Our core value is building strong client relationships and serving our clients. The strategist team (strats) plays an integral role on the trading floor. We create cutting-edge derivative pricing models to provide insight into market behavior, develop automated trading algorithms for the firm and clients, and structuring transactions to meet client needs. The dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, practical solutions.
THE PRIME SERVICES STRATEGIST TEAM
Our global team is a fundamental part of the Prime Services Business in Global Market Division. We drive major business decisions and run business critical systems in the many areas. We analyze large data sets to inform business decision making, build quantitative models to optimize resource allocation, and develop scalable inventory management platforms to bring the model logic into actions. We are also in charge of developing external and internal client performance and profitability metrics which are used to identify the best ways to serve our clients’ needs.
While organized in different locations, we pride ourselves in our teamwork across the globe teams to find solutions that help our business thrive around the world. Our team members have a wide variety of quantitative academic and cultural backgrounds. This diversity helps us to find innovative solutions for our complex business problems.
If you are looking for an entrepreneurial position allowing you to fully leverage your strong quantitative, engineering and communication skills to solve challenging real world problems, then our prime service strat team has the ideal opportunity for you.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- Strong academic background in a relevant field - Mathematics, engineering, computer science, or economics background, including a quantitative understanding of statistics and probability
- Strong programming skills in a modern programming language (Python, C++, Java or equivalent language) and familiarity with object oriented design principles
- Comfortable working on multiple projects, demonstrating initiative and deliver results quickly
- Ability to solve technical problems and explain the underlying ideas to a non-technical audience
- Knowledge of financial markets is preferred, in particular, understanding of one delta products, and financial mathematics is a plus
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