Junior Quantitative Analyst

London, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Marex is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

The Quantitative Analyst will continuously be challenged around model risk management, model validation, pricing methodology and quantitative model development of various pricing and risk engines. They will gain exposure to various asset classes with a strong appreciation for the complexities across the various commodity and equity markets. Development of independent coding libraries and routines is required.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Model Risk Management framework for Structured Financial products and exotic trades.
• Contribute to independent model validation of Front Office Analytics libraries and models for equities, FX, Credit and commodities.
• Produced high quality quantitative analysis and model validation documentation (LaTeX).
• Enhancement of the risk management infrastructure through the transformation of data with coding.
• Ongoing model development for valuation and risk measurement, carrying out reviews and calibration of model parameters to help ensure best practice is followed.
• Develop and implement tactical & strategic risk tools to provide analysis and potential reporting capabilities to the overall team.
• Build & maintain historic data sets across price and implied volatility surfaces to support pricing and risk models.
• Quantitatively analyse new product structures and identify embedded risks using Monte Carlo simulation-based modelling and other methods.
• Maintain and extend a Stress Portfolio Options Engine used for margining calculations.
  
  

Essential

Skills and Experience:

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including Stochastic Calculus, Stochastic Processes, Numerical Analysis, Derivative Pricing, Computational Finance and Quantitative Risk Management.
• Excellent programming knowledge using object oriented programming with various programming languages (Python, C++, C#, etc.)
• Professional in creating well-structured documents using scientific typesetting software i.e. LateX, Lyx, Beamer etc.
• Experience in assessing, quantifying and implementing appropriate portfolio price and stress tests.
• Master’s degree/PhD in Maths, Physics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science or any related field (or equivalent qualification or experience).
• High-quality assessment of a wide range of potential complex transactions, carrying out modelling and analysis as necessary, advising upon the value and risk-related quantitative issues associated with the proposals.
• Some familiarity in volatility surface construction and calibration.
  
  

Desirable

• Relevant exotic options work experience including knowledge of commodities.
• Structured Products and Hybrid structures.
• Options or/and Volatility trading.
• Machine Learning related to Finance techniques.
• IT and Software Development oriented mentality.
  
  

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Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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