Director, Financial Engineering - Ny/Remote

Numerix brentwood , NY 11717

Posted 2 weeks ago

The Director, Financial Engineering in the Risk Team will work within the Product Group to help develop the next generation pricing and risk management product offerings for the financial markets industry, with a core focus on Market Risk. The role will entail working internally across business, research and development teams as well as externally with clients to determine product features and enhancements that will be commercially successful in providing solutions to capital markets participants.

Primary responsibilities:

  • Business Analyst:

  • Understand requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.

  • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.

  • Pre- and Post- Sales Engineer:

  • Serve as business and technical expert on pre-sales and post-sales projects as needed. Work may include serving as business and technical resource for active client implementations.

  • Develop prototypes based on the aforementioned business analysis by leveraging, Numerix SDK, Python and other tools.

  • Work cross functionally with various departments, our clients, as well as the entire Numerix organization as a member of a Risk team.

  • Product Specialist:

  • Work with Clients, Financial Engineers and R&D to analyze product gaps and enhancement requests, draft technical specifications and assist in prioritizing developmental efforts.

Experience and skills required:

  • 8+ years experience in the Financial Services industry. Front or middle office experience at a sell-side institution, hedge fund or asset manager a plus.

  • Strong analytical and communication skills are required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into functional and technical requirements.

  • Thorough understanding of and experience delivering market risk analytics including MtM, Greeks, Stress Testing, VaR, PnL explain.

  • Extensive knowledge of listed and OTC Cash and Derivative products including valuation models and methodologies. Exposure to multiple Asset Classes (FI, Commodities, Credit, Equities and FX) a plus.

  • Intermediate coding skills are required with Python preferable.

  • In-depth familiarity with Product Structures, Curve Building, Pricing Models, Risk and Market and Reference Data.

  • Good understanding of Derivative transaction life-cycle management from both a Front and Back Office perspective is a plus.

  • Familiarity with banking regulatory standards such as Basel III endgame/FRTB is a plus.

  • Working knowledge of front office or middle office systems a plus: Bloomberg, Calypso, Murex, Misys, RiskMetrics, Calypso, Algorithmics.

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, mathematics, economics or related field.

  • Masters in Quantitative Finance or MBA in Finance degree preferred - * FRM, PRM, CFA a plus.

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