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About the Company

My Client is a leading Marco Hedge Fund looking to hire experienced pricing quants at their office in London. The firm has a collaborative environment where team leaders have access to a wealth of internal resources. This is an opportunity to work with highly diverse and intelligent colleagues, in a top performing Hedge fund.



About the Role

The Investment Quant (IQ) team is responsible for development and maintenance of pricing models, trading tools, risk management tools, and relative value opportunity identification tools. IQ team members are also the first line of support to the business when it comes to all the derivatives pricing and risk tools.



Qualifications

  • A Levels at grade A*/A and a 1st class degree with MA or PhD in a numerate field from a Russell Group
  • University (or equivalent international secondary/tertiary education)
  • EITHER 4-5+ years of non-linear/vol experience on a trading desk for a tier 1 bank, or buy side firm, OR 4-5+ years working as Quant but with strong software development skills
  • Excellent maths intuition
  • An intuitive understanding of derivatives and market knowledge
  • Experience in data analysis using Python based tools
  • Minimum 4 years’ experience in object-oriented programming in an enterprise-level code base, ideally one of C#, C++ or JAVA
  • Minimum 4 years’ experience of Pricing and Modelling
  • Knowledge of Machine Learning
  • Ability to pick up new skills quickly and thrive in fast-paced environments
  • Good communication skills and a pragmatic problem solver
  • Ability to work independently and with initiative
  • Ability and drive to work in a collaborative team environment



Required Skills

  • Rates quant with strong mathematical and programming skills
  • Experience in building cutting edge Rates trading tools and other analytics



Preferred Skills

  • Experience in data analysis using Python based tools
  • Knowledge of Machine Learning

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