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Salary + Incentive+ all Regualr perks and several soft benefits |
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Quantitative Analyst / Senior Quantitative Analyst position
We are looking for candidates with experience in Quantitative Modeling, Risk management for our clients on the West Coast. Candidates with a Financial Engineering degree or a Ph.D would be preferred. Any experience in Quantitative Modeling in Energy and volatile assets would be a big plus, Higher level positions are also available for the right candidates
Department Overview
The Quantitative Group is engaged in a variety of tasks in risk management and controls. Specific responsibilities of the group include developing risk management models to measure risks of different businesses and commodity-related (primarily commodities) transactions, estimating and calibrating parameters for use in risk models (such as volatilities and correlations of forward prices, mean-reversion rates, etc.), measuring and monitoring portfolio risks, stress-testing, hedge effectiveness analysis, validating key models developed by other businesses and affiliates of the Company, developing IT solutions appropriate to handle exotic option valuations and advanced value-at-risk type computations for different commodities and portfolios of deals.
Position Summary
Quantitative Analyst/Senior Quantitative Analyst is an individual contributor position within Quantitative Team. This position is expected to contribute in the areas of risk analysis and modeling, model validation, portfolio risk management, stress testing, hedge effectiveness analysis and projects.
Responsibilities
• Risk Analysis and Modeling: Mathematical modeling of commodity (primarily commodities) prices, derivatives and transactions as needed to analyze and quantify risks. This may involve stochastic modeling of forward and spot prices, estimation of model parameters (such as volatility, correlation, mean reversion rate, etc. as appropriate), determining statistical significance of the results, and implementation and enhancement of Monte Carlo energy price simulation models and methodologies including balancing requirements for model accuracy, speed, and flexibility.
• Model Validation: Perform review of models developed by Front Office quant team and other sources as needed and the key risk models developed by Mid Office quant team.
• Portfolio Risk Management: Compute portfolio risk using time-to-expiration Value-at-Risk methodologies. Understand complex portfolios composition and discern and report on portfolio risks. Such portfolios may include a variety of physical assets (such as manufacturing plansts, storage) and a number of financial instruments (such as fixed strike options, floating strike options, tolling options on two commodities, Asian options, fixed-for-floating swaps, other types of exotic and real options).
• Stress Testing: Perform stress tests to determine portfolio level impacts on procurement costs.
• Hedge effectiveness analysis: Assess and report on the effectiveness of hedging strategies and programs.
• Projects: Provide leadership in completing projects related to implementation of quantitative models and risk systems
Qualifications Required
• Degree in Financial Engineering, Mathematical and Computational Finance, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics or other quantitative discipline
• 3+ years of programming experience in VBA, Matlab, SQL, and relational database
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently with multiple projects under tight deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desired function, in the "Creative" specialty. As another example
• Advanced degree in Financial Engineering, Mathematical and Computational Finance, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics or other quantitative discipline
• 3+ years relevant experience mathematical and computational finance, preferably hands on in quantitative market risk management of portfolios with energy commodities transactions involving valuation and risk assessment of embedded derivative, such as swaps, options, swaptions, Asian options and other relevant exotic options.
• Energy experience
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