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You will work as part of a centralized Strategist team, working on vanilla and exotic product modelling, parameter marking and risk representation across geographies and markets.\nWhat you’ll do \nAs a Strategist, you will support portfolio managers trading derivatives in representing, rationalizing and understanding risk at a product and book level- ensuring that risk is accurate and economically consistent with product/payoff definitions. In addition, there will be focus on creating and understanding stressed market scenarios and developing modelling to predict product and book behavior in those environments. This will involve developing and validating parameter models to represent volatility surfaces, dividends and funding. You will support portfolio managers and traders maintaining and extending a centralized library for valuation and risk calculations.\nYou will be leading efforts on:\nVol surface parameterization and modelling\nVol product pricing, risk representation and rationalisation\nVol PnL explanations & attribution\nDividends modelling\nScenario construction and book behaviour\nWhat you’ll bring\n What you need:\nStrong Python skills\nExperience with volatility trading strategies\nStrong background and intuition in financial mathematics, adopting a first-principles approach to understanding product behavior\nExperience working with quantitative risk teams, traders, and portfolio managers\nExcellent communication skills, both written and verbal\nExperience with production environments\nStrong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results\nOur Culture\nThe firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. 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