Vice President- Equity Derivatives Quant

Job Description

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Equity Derivatives Quant

Principal Responsibilities

• Developing and enhancing the available products and models available to trade
• Enhance reserve methodologies; Enhance model performance monitoring
• Timely completion of model development tasks with little or no bugs; Positive feedback from the trading, structuring and valuation control desks; Successful release of new models in quant libraries
• Resolving issues raised by users and IT teams in using the Quant libraries; Assisting other members of the Equities Quant team with technical issues; Assisting IT with any integration issues they may have with our libraries.
• Following internal and regulatory guidelines for Releases and Documentation of the Quant libraries and tools; Define and run the relevant tests; Being able to roll back to a different version of the codebase, thanks to a robust versioning
• Provide support of product development tasks; Develops new products with their appropriate model, model calibration tools and risks.
• Develops and maintains complex products such as Vol Caps, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Collateralized Loans, new one-off trades; Defines model reserves methodologies in collaboration with Product Control and Trading. Monitors these reserves. Contributes to their industrialization
• Participate in Model Governance – Development of model performance indicators, Liaise with IMR in Model reviews and implement remediative actions to findings arising from such reviews.
• Develop and maintain a testing framework for new products and models; Day to day support / Bugs fixing; Assist in the release of the Quant libraries and tools; Assist in deploying the product development tools to users
  
  

Requirements

• A degree based on Mathematical Finance from a top tier university
• Experience in model development in derivatives (at least 5 years)
• Familiarity with C++
• Scripting and Python experience
• Advanced C++ (at least 5 years)
  
  

You’ll achieve more at HSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

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