Senior Quant, Equity Derivatives

Position Description

We are seeking a Senior Quant to join our team, focusing on equity derivatives. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and innovating our equity derivative library, building resilient risk/pricing infrastructure in collaboration with IT, and developing advanced tools for volatility fitting and dividend marking. This position offers a unique opportunity to support daily trading activities, develop trading tools, and collaborate with global teams to drive growth in the EMEA region. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, a deep understanding of equity derivatives, and a proactive, problem-solving mindset.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Designing and innovating equity derivative library.

• Working with IT to build a resilient risk/pricing infrastructure.

• Building Vol Fitting tools and Dividend marking tools.

• Supporting daily trading tasks.

• Building trading tools and helping sales & trading expand business in EMEA.

• Working with global quants on global quant projects.

• Developing and validating advanced pricing and risk models for complex derivatives and structured products.

• Mentoring junior quant team members and contributing to quantitative research and methodology development.

Requirements

• Degree holder in Finance, Mathematics, Sciences, Engineering or related discipline(s).

• Good knowledge for Equity Derivatives.

• Coding skills are required.

• Strong work ethic and motivation.

• Ability to think fast and critically, solve various problems arising from trading, risk and operations

• Ability to work under pressure and collaborate in a team.

• Around 5-10 years of direct experience.

• Excellent command of English – verbal and written.

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