Senior Quant Risk Management Associate - London, United Kingdom - CME Management

CME Management

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Description
The Senior Quant Risk Management Associate, is responsible developing Risk/Pricing Models that evaluate counterparty exposures to the Clearing House. These include models related to Pricing, Value-at-Risk, Stress Testing, Liquidity, Regulatory Capital, & also developing tools for Portfolio Analytics.

The incumbent also works to develop strategies to perform back-testing to ensure the adequacy of margin coverage & model assumptions.

Principal Accountabilities:

Conduct empirical studies and make recommendations on margin levels, modeling issues, and other riskmitigation measures. Ensure that the model is up to date with the proven theories in the field.
Enhance existing risk models as well as design/prototype new models across different asset classes like OTC and Futures (e.g. Pricing, VaR, Backtest, Stress, Liquidity, etc.).
Ensure deployment, testing and continuous improvement of these models within the Production Infrastructure of CME.
Present results to Sr. Management and/or Risk Committees.

Skills & Software Requirements:
Proficiency in programming languages such as C++/C#, R, VBA and SQL is essential.

CME Group:
Where Futures Are Made