Position Description
The Equity Derivatives Junior Quant plays a key role in supporting the 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. The position supports daily trading applications, develops trading tools and collaborates with global teams.
Key Areas of Responsibilities
- Support Equity Derivatives D1 business for overseas offices.
- Build market and reference data pipelines, including ETL and storage solutions.
- Develop pricing tools and maintain daily risk and P&L analysis.
- Build trading tools and provide technical support to Equity Derivative sales teams overseas.
- Collaborate with global quantitative teams on the quant library and cross‑border quant projects.
- Design and innovate the Equity Derivative library and related components.
- Work with IT to build a resilient risk and pricing infrastructure.
- Support daily trading applications and resolve production issues arising from trading, risk, or operations.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Proven experience with large datasets, storage systems, ETL pipelines, and data analysis workflows.
- Strong Python (3.12+) skills with solid grounding in object‑oriented programming, design patterns, and modern Python tooling.
- Experience building Python‑based dashboards (for example Dash, Plotly, Streamlit, Panel, Bokeh).
- Hands‑on experience with Airflow or equivalent workflow orchestration tools.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including testing, version control, and documentation best practices.
- Familiarity with quantitative finance, trading systems, or research workflows.
- Experience with time series databases or working with financial data vendors.
- Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and solve problems arising from trading, risk, and operations.
- Self‑motivated, detail oriented, and proactive.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Proven experience with large datasets, storage systems, ETL pipelines, and data analysis workflows
- Strong Python (3.12+) skills with solid grounding in object-oriented programming
- Experience building Python‑based dashboards (for example Dash, Plotly, Streamlit, Panel, Bokeh)
- Hands‑on experience with Airflow or equivalent workflow orchestration tools
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including testing, version control, and documentation best practices
- Familiarity with quantitative finance, trading systems, or research workflows
- Experience with time series databases or working with financial data vendors
- Fluent in spoken and written English
CLSA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CLSA and has not been reviewed or approved by CLSA.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Base pay for junior bankers was increased significantly in 2021 to stay competitive in a hot market. This indicates willingness to adjust compensation when talent risks rise.
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Healthcare Strength — Permanent staff are automatically enrolled in healthcare aligned to local markets, with added travel health and security support via International SOS. This points to solid core medical coverage with global-travel assistance.
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Retirement Support — Permanent staff are automatically enrolled in pension plans aligned to local markets. A group retirement plan is administered regionally, signaling formalized retirement benefits infrastructure.
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What We Do
CITIC CLSA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Securities and its overseas business platform. Established in Hong Kong in 1986, CITIC CLSA is Asia’s leading capital markets and investment group, committed to driving the growth strategies of global institutional investors, corporations, governments and high-net-worth individuals. CITIC CLSA’s award-winning research, extensive Asia network, direct links to China and highly experienced financial professionals set CITIC CLSA apart from global investment banks and regional players. Over three decades, CITIC CLSA has built an extensive Asia network with deep local knowledge and connections. Globally, we operate from 13 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. For further information, please visit clsa.com
