Front Office Exotic Fixed Income Quant - Paris, France - Millar Associates

Description

Non-linear Rates, FX, Credit, Hybrids, XVA, OO language

This top-tier investment bank seeks to hire a Quant Analyst to join their front office quant team in Paris. With a background in any of the above product areas, you will support the Global Markets platform, which offers a multi-product approach across all asset classes. Their goal is to provide quality investment and risk management solutions to asset managers, pension funds, corporates, private banks, insurers, hedge funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds globally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with Fixed Income / FX / Credit trading desks, and also Risk, Finance & IT teams
• Formalize the needs of traders and financial engineers in terms of valuation, hedging & risk
• Design, develop and test models in an OO language (mainly C#) and work on trading tools
• Ensure high-quality standards for calculation libraries, in terms of performance & stability
• Awareness of regulatory issues and able confidently to interact with the Risk department

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• 5-10 yrs' Quant modelling skills with risk-neutral pricing, hedging, etc.
• Solid knowledge of ideally Exotic Rates, FX, Credit or XVA (other asset classes also considered)
• Good coding skills in a big Library environment, close to trading (C# or C++)
• Experience of a large bank with a big library, big teams, associated type of problems...
• Good proven awareness of regulatory issues and able confidently to interact with the Risk department
• Great communication skills and fluent in English
• Good Masters or PhD in a quantitative discipline from a top-tier institution