Senior Quant, Equity Derivatives

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London, England
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
This role involves designing an equity derivative library, building risk infrastructure, developing trading tools, and mentoring junior quants.
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Position Description

We are seeking a Senior Quant to join our team, focusing on equity derivatives. The successful candidate will play a key role in 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. This position offers a unique opportunity to support daily trading activities, develop trading tools, and collaborate with global teams to drive growth in the EMEA region. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, a deep understanding of equity derivatives, and a proactive, problem-solving mindset.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

  • Designing and innovating equity derivative library.

  • Working with IT to build a resilient risk/pricing infrastructure.

  • Building Vol Fitting tools and Dividend marking tools.

  • Supporting daily trading tasks.

  • Building trading tools and helping sales & trading expand business in EMEA.

  • Working with global quants on global quant projects.

  • Developing and validating advanced pricing and risk models for complex derivatives and structured products.

  • Mentoring junior quant team members and contributing to quantitative research and methodology development.

Requirements

  • Degree holder in Finance, Mathematics, Sciences, Engineering or related discipline(s).

  • Good knowledge for Equity Derivatives.

  • Coding skills are required.

  • Strong work ethic and motivation.

  • Ability to think fast and critically, solve various problems arising from trading, risk and operations

  • Ability to work under pressure and collaborate in a team.

  • Around 5-10 years of direct experience.

  • Excellent command of English – verbal and written.

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Equity Derivatives
Risk/Price Infrastructure
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The Company
London,
2,160 Employees
Year Founded: 1986

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

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