Junior PhD Quant - London Based Investment Bank

Description:

The group is responsible for all quantitative research within the Fixed Income flow business, covering Swaps, Bonds, Short Term, Mortgages and Credit flow, along with other businesses. They work closely with the traders, and are responsible for developing and implementing the models and the trading tools that are used for pricing and risk management. This includes the research of innovative relative value methodologies, curve and market models, providing pricing methodologies and tools for new products and so on.

The team holds a critical position covering all desk research and library work for the Fixed Income business (Rates/FX/Credit/Inflation). As such you can expect to be dealing with a variety of desks across the business.

This house offers an outstanding first year financial package, platform for development, and long-term career prospects. Eligibility to work in theUKis also a prerequisite.

The successful candidate will possess:

- Solid training (PhD) in computer science, economics, engineering, finance, mathematics, operations research, physics, statistics or a related field from a World-Class university
- Previous exposure to a quantitative role within a trading environment is a plus
- Strong coding skills (C/C++), familiarity with one or more statistical packages (e.g. R and Matlab ) and exposure to one or more scripting languages (e.g. bash, PERL, etc.)
- Strong mathematical and/or statistical modeling skills, both time-series and cross-sectional skills are highly valued
- Comfortable in a complex, demanding and highly technical environment

Please apply via the attached link to discuss.

This role is only one of many vacancies within the Front Office Quant & Systematic Trading space that we are currently handling at Huxley Associates. If you feel that this role may not be exactly what you are looking for, please ask for Felix Bateman or Weli Elmi on 0207 469 5055 for further information on similar roles. Equally, if you do know anyone who may be appropriate for this role, please do not hesitate to forward this on.To find out more about Huxley Associates please visit www.huxley.com