Equity Derivatives Quant

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Equity Derivatives Quant

Principal responsibilities

• Developing and enhancing the available products and models available to trade
• Enhance reserve methodologies; Enhance model performance monitoring; Timely completion of model development tasks with little or no bugs; Positive feedback from the trading, structuring and valuation control desks.
• Successful release of new models in quant  libraries; Resolving issues raised by users and IT teams in using the Quant libraries.
• Positive feedback from Trading/Structuring/IT; Successful integration of our libraries by IT; Assisting other members of the Equities Quant team with technical issues; Assisting IT with any integration issues they may have with our libraries.
• Following internal and regulatory guidelines for Releases and Documentation of the Quant libraries and tools ; Define and run the relevant test; Being able to roll back to a different version of the codebase, thanks to a robust versioning
• Programming in a professional standard ensuring industry good practices are followed; Development and deployment of features/bug fixes/components within reasonable and predictable timelines
• Proper monitoring and follow up of feedbacks/requests; Continuous and proactive interaction with the relevant stakeholders; Provide support of product development tasks:
• Develops new products with their appropriate model, model calibration tools and risks; Develops and maintains complex products such as Vol Caps, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Collateralized Loans, new one-off trades; Develop and maintain a testing framework for new products and models
• Defines model reserves methodologies in collaboration with Product Control and Trading. Monitors these reserves. Contributes to their industrialization
• Participate in Model Governance – Development of model performance indicators, Liaise with IMR in Model reviews and implement remediative actions to findings arising from such reviews
• Day to day support / Bugs fixing; Assist in the release of the Quant libraries and tools; Assist in deploying the product development tools to users.