Junior Quant Analyst-Asset Management-Geneva

JUNIOR QUANT ANALYST-ASSET MANAGEMENT-GENEVA The CLIENT Our client is an asset management company having offices all around the world and ranked in the International top 10 in its categories. In order to reinforce the Quantitative team, they are looking for a JUNIOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYST. This role is a front office support position and will expose you to Mathematics modeling, Project management, Financial analysis and Financial market. The ROLE You will work in the Quant team who is in charge of providing the ad hoc support with the appropriate infrastructure to the trading platforms mainly in terms of risk management and trading tools. Your main duties will be: * Developing pricing models; testing, adapting and optimizing them * Valuing and analyzing financial market data through quantitative techniques * In collaboration with the quant team: develop, maintain and improve trading platforms, trading tools and ad hoc processes (risk management, etc.) * Ad hoc project (risk, IT, Trading or Quant related) The REQUESTED PROFILE * You have min. a Master degree or a PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Technology, Natural sciences or Engineering, from one of the top 10 best Universities, such as MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Polytech Paris, ETH Zurich, EPFL or similar * You have done min. 1 or 2 relevant internships in the financial industry - quant oriented * You have a strong interest into asset management, financial markets and credit trading/rates concepts * You are a problem solver with strong mathematical and IT skills (C++, C#, SQL, Excel. VBA) * You are team player, polyvalent and hands on, you have strong analytical and communication skills * You speak and write perfectly English + ideally French * You have a EU passport or a Swiss permit The OFFER This role will give you to chance to work and develop within a high level and challenging environment, belonging to the exciting asset management sector. You will have a broad role in front office in risk management where you could maximize your skills and develop your strengths. Please send me your CV in a WORD version or contact me for more details: Celine Hendrick-Huxley Associates Switzerland - +41 44 588 26 88.

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