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The Role ResponsibilitiesFinancial Markets has expertise combined with deep local market knowledge to deliver a variety of risk management, financing and investment solutions to our clients. The FM team offers capabilities across origination, structuring, sales, trading and research. Offering a full suite of fixed income, currencies, commodities, equities and capital markets solutions, FM has firmly established itself as a trusted partner with extensive on-the-ground knowledge and deep relationships.
Within FM, the Modelling & Analytics Group (&lsquoMAG) is accountable for design, development and delivery of real-time pricing models, risk models, and core infrastructure, enabling pricing, market data, intra-day risk reporting capability, and portfolio level analytics including reporting and capital computation .
The role of Rates & Inflation Quantitative Analyst, will work in Hong Kong, focusing primarily upon model development activities for rates and inflation models.
Specific responsibilities include:
Strategy
- Working with traders, structurers and other modellers to execute product development plans in line with business priorities.
Business
- Awareness of the economic, market and regulatory environment in which FM operates, especially as regards model and analytics capabilities.
Processes
- Develop and maintain models for the pricing and risk management of interest rates and inflation products.
- Delivery of model documentation and testing material.
- Improving and maintaining existing analytics.
- Research into alternative models and numerical techniques as well as ongoing assessment of models published in industry or academic literature.
- Provide day-to-day support for relevant business units.
Internal and Regulatory compliance
- Ensure models are developed and maintained in-line with the applicable policies and standards.
- Comply with the Operational Risk Framework.
- Proactively support the implementation of the Group Model Risk policy.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Strong academic qualifications in a quantitative subject (e.g., Financial Mathematics, Master&rsquos or PhD)
- Past experience developing/validating financial markets inflation pricing/risk models in an international bank
- Good knowledge of numerical methods, stochastic calculus, and probability theory
- C++ programming
- Knowledge of financial market products, market conventions and regulatory requirements
- Knowledge of functional programming (e.g Haskell) is a plus
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