Job Description:
Job Title: Quantitative Strategist Flow Rates
Location: London
Corporate Title : Associate
Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.
The Strats team is responsible for delivery of risk and Profit and Loss (P&L) and pricing platforms for the trading businesses globally. The team delivers innovative solutions to business requirements, ensuring that these solutions are accurate, performant, robust, reliable and scalable.
You will be joining the Flow Rates Desk Strats team to support the development and implementation of the strategic Kannon platform (written in C++ and Python), building the ‘Golden-Source’ representation of Trading Inventory, delivering critical interest rate curves for risk and P&L platforms within Investment Bank. This aims to integrate front office functions into a single architecture, removing duplication and operational complexity caused by fragmentation of these functions across 30+ legacy platforms.
What we’ll offer you
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year
Your key responsibilities
- Support Flow Rates business (Pricing, risks analysis, P&L)
- Support with business-driven opportunities and contributing innovative and quantitative ideas to solve complex problems for the desk
- Analysis, design, and development of analytics for linear rates products within Kannon platform
- Work together in partnership with other Strats and Technology teams to drive the build-out of the strategic market data, trade inventory and analytics platforms
- Collaborating with multiple stakeholders across trading, finance, software development and Market Risk
Your skills and experience
- Strong quantitative, modelling, pricing and risk management skills, demonstrated within a financial services environment
- Experience pricing and risk calculation for interest rate products using C++ and Python
- Experience working with interest rate curve construction and calibration
- Attention to detail and excellent problem solving and numerical skills
- Identifies architectural opportunities and employ best practices by default
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and partner with various teams, and to be able to explain complex concepts effectively
How we’ll support you
- Coaching and support from experts in your team
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
- We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
