Senior quant analyst Dallas jersey City tampa Boston

Job Description

Senior quant analyst Dallas jersey City tampa Boston

 Experience level: Mid-senior Experience required: 5 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Pay rate : View hourly payrate Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No

This role is Contract to Hire!

We are looking for a consultant to join the Quantitative Risk Management group (“QRM”), which is responsible for quantitative model development and performance assessment including model performance monitoring (“MPM”) and backtesting (“BT”).

The consultant will support the backtest and MPM process. Specific Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain backtest model.

Assist with backtest reporting and diagnostics!

Assist with ad hoc model risk analyses as needed.

Qualifications:

5+ years of working experience and must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in quantitative models, research, with deep understanding on VaR and backtesting as well as statistical applications.

Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

Must have excellent interpersonal skills

Self-motivated and able to work independently.

Have a general knowledge about the financial market, products, risk management (such as VaR modeling) and risk metrics (such as backtesting).

Solid programming skills in data processing language such as SQL, Python.

A Master’s degree in a quantitative field, preferably in applied economics, econometrics, statistics or financial engineering, PhD with similar background is preferred.

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