Junior Quantitative Risk Analyst

About The Role

You build protections around trading, improve risk infrastructure, implement risk measures and automated reporting, and work within an automated computational framework. You quantify risk and performance using market and historical data and help set, test, and monitor trading system and positional limits.

Responsibilities

• Build efficient protections around trading
• Collaborate with developers to improve risk infrastructure
• Implement risk measures
• Implement automated reporting
• Work within an automated computational framework
• Develop ways to quantify risk and performance measures
• Use market and historical data
• Assist in setting trading system and positional limits
• Test trading system and positional limits
• Monitor trading system and positional limits

Requirements

• Finance experience or knowledge of options theory
• Programming experience such as Python
• Numerical problem-solving skills
• Programming skills
• Degree in a quantitative field or evidence of mathematical and quantitative skill
• Ability to respond quickly and accurately to changing market conditions

SQL preferred but not required

Benefits

• Employer-paid medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Retirement contributions
• Paid time off
• Discretionary performance bonus