Job Description:
Job Title: Equity Derivatives Quant, Vice President
Corporate Title: Vice President
Location: London
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Job Description
We have an opportunity for an experienced quantitative strategist/modeler to join the Quantitative Strategy and Data Group team in London (QSDG), focusing on Equity Derivatives. The QSDG team is the global front-office team responsible for all firmwide models and analytics used by the Markets division at Bank of America, across all asset classes. The role is focused on equity derivatives and is primarily about designing and implementing production-grade models and analytics to support the growth of the equity exotics business through our structured products issuance and risk recycling initiatives.
Responsibilities
Working on a wide range of projects including improving our fundamental pricing models
Developing tools to help identifying trading opportunities and improve the risk management of the books
Enhancing complex autopricing algorithms used be the firm
Skills
Candidates educated at Master or PhD level in a STEM subject.
2 to 10 years in a quant role in derivatives preferably in Equity Derivatives, with both a theoretical and practical understanding of Local Volatility, Stochastic Volatility, Correlation, Dividend modelling
Theoretical and practical understanding of numerical methods, including Finite Difference method for PDEs, Bermudan Monte-Carlo
Products expertise desirable in Equity autocallables, issuer callables, volatility target and variance derivatives
Experience of implementing models and analytics in C++ and Python in a production quantitative library
Proven track record of delivering robust, scalable and rigorously tested implementations in a dynamic environment
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
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