Front Office FX Quant - Vice President

Wells Fargo & Company; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking candidates for the role of Senior Lead Securities Quantitative Analytics Specialist, which is a Vice President level role within the Corporate & Investment Banking organization (CIB). The successful candidate will be part of a team responsible for developing and implementing quantitative models and tools for Foreign Exchange (“FX”) and Non-USD Rates risk management, trading, and pricing with focus on areas like forecasting, optimization, and risk mitigation. This is part of a strategic initiative to build new models that will be integrated into a holistic markets quantitative risk and trading platform. Specific work will be spearheaded by the Front Office FX and Non-USD Rates Quant group but will be integrated into a cross asset-class platform within CIB.

Our Corporate & Investment Banking Front Office Quantitative Model Development Team is working on a strategic buildout initiative. This initiative will enhance our ability to partner and deliver excellent quality and service to our trading and sales partners as our platform continues to grow.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Design, development, and implementation of quantitative models for FX and Non-USD Rates risk management, trading strategies, and pricing of FX and Non-USD Rates products.
• Participate in the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and delivery of derivative pricing and trading models for FX and Rates products, providing expertise in relevant software design, implementation, and performance optimization.
• Effectively communicate and partner with Business Stakeholders, other Quant Teams, Technology, Risk, and Project Management.
• Deliver high-quality software and documentation.
• Work closely with the trading desk on short-term projects and support of existing models, as well as working within the Quant team on wider projects for the business.

In this role, you will:

• Proactively participate in complex software design & development activities within an Agile environment.
• Contribute to large-scale project planning, balancing short and long-term objectives.
• Use quantitative and advanced technologies to solve complex business problems.
• Meet deliverables while adhering to policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, trading desks, and project managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Effectively communicate with and build consensus with all project stakeholders.
• Serve as a mentor for less experienced staff.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Securities Quantitative Analytics, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications:

• Extensive years of hands-on coding experience, C++ and Java are most relevant, with an emphasis on numerical optimization.
• Extensive years of experience working as a front office desk Quant for FX derivatives, ideally with exposure to exotics Rates derivatives and FX-IR hybrids.
• Deep knowledge of FX markets and conventions, hedging practices, and calibration issues. Knowledge of Rates markets is a plus.
• Solid knowledge of financial mathematics, particularly, stochastic calculus, arbitrage, hedging, PDE, Monte-Carlo and other numerical methods.
• Team player, comfortable on a trading floor, with strong, clear and concise written and oral communication skills.
• Masters or PhD in quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics or computer science.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully collaborating with others in a change driven environment.
• Curious to keep up with market practices and recent developments on the pricing and regulatory fronts.
• Good intuitions on the models and the model results.
• Strong interest in financial markets and willingness to provide practical solutions for a trading desk.

Posting End Date: 27 Apr 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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