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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Quantitative Risk Management Analyst fora Contract assignment with one of our premier Financial clientsin New York, NY or Chicago, IL. Candidate will assist the Clearing Department on day-to-day activities in support of quant risk team. The Quantitative Risk Team in the Risk Management Department is responsible for developing, analyzing, and back-testing models for clearing initiatives. Responsibilities :
- Daily responsibilities include code release testing, historical data validation, margin and stress testing model validation, and portfolio back-testing.
- The candidate must have the ability to efficiently, effectively, and independently conduct research, analyze problems, formulate and implement solutions, and produce high quality results on time.
- Strong quantitative and analytical background.
- Excellent programming, communication, and documentation skills.
- Knowledge of financial markets.
- Knowledge in advanced quantitative risk modeling and knowledge of statistical models in risk management preferred.
- Knowledge in advanced derivatives modeling and knowledge of volatility models preferred.
- Experience with programming languages such as C/C#, R, VBA, and SQL is also required.
- Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate the best practices in developing risk models like Historical VaR, Monte Carlo VaR, Multi-Factor Risk Models, Stressed VaR, Liquidity Risk models, etc.
- Education:Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Financial Mathematics, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
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