Quantitative Finance consulting role with leading Advisory firm. 3-6 months contract with possible extension. Excellent rate.

You must have Banking and c++ or SAS experience from a Quant, Model Validation, Pricing or Model Risk role as well as the relevant visa for the UK.

Are you a models or quant professional who is looking to leverage your skills and knowledge in a different discipline with varied exposure? Or perhaps you are looking for a new challenge in a top tier investment bank with long term career growth opportunity?

If you are well versed in Quant / Models practices and have a concept of retail or investment banking products, this role offers a different opportunity than a standard senior level models or quant role.

If you enjoy conducting deep dive assessment and seek to enhance your enterprise wide work with key executive stakeholder interaction, this role will add real personal value whilst also enabling you to develop your technical skills with market leading models across a wide variety of banking business lines.

Due to the size and stature of the organisation, there are plenty of opportunities for internal mobility, upward progression and continuous learning and development, you will also be supported by your peers and senior management who have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the quant discipline, from a wide variety of backgrounds

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to enterprise-wide coverage and play a key part in the team’s development of process improvement
• Conducting assessments from planning through to completion, acting as subject matter expert
• Responsible for delivering reviews of global markets’ portfolios focusing on the use of quant finance and models
• Providing support and guidance to more junior team members
• Stakeholder relationship; engaging professional in modelling and quant finance in frequent dialogue regarding their work

Key Requirements:

• Degree (minimum BSc/ BA level) with good academic record
• Demonstrate a capability to diversify and have an appreciation for process risk and controls
• Knowledge of investment banking and associated products
• Ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to manage relationships both within the core team, other business areas and stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal), especially report writing
• Capable of undertaking new challenges and tasks even in unfamiliar territories and able to learn quickly
• Eager for continuous learning and development.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO:

• USE YOUR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE;
• GAIN CROSS ASSET CLASS EXPERIENCE
• ADD VALUE TO YOUR CAREER FOR FUTURE LEADERSHIP ROLES

To apply CONTACT Howell Evans [email protected]

For further details or to refer individuals in your network please get in touch for a confidential discussion.

My client is looking for a solid KDB+ developer to lead the KDB+ development activities across Fixed Income Rates and Currencies group in London.

The role will require a strong leader who can work closely with the front office business and lead the strategic direction of the KDB platform.

The team will work on the build out of the current KDB platform to meet new client demands across the Fixed Income Rates and Currencies group and to achieve this you work closely with the Front Office Quant and Trading business.

Work covers KDB architecture including but not limited to:

• low latency tick
• schema
• Q framework
• user focused analytics and visualization
• scripting
• some java components
• design of significantly sized KDB+ systems and Infrastructures
• development on a Unix or Linux environment
• low latency systems development and tick data capture
• core Java 

 Industry: Investment Banking