Strategist - Equity Risk

Schonfeld; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in Greater London is seeking a highly qualified Quantitative Strategist to support trading teams. This role involves developing and validating models for volatility trading strategies and enhancing risk representation for various products. Ideal candidates should have strong quantitative skills, experience with derivatives, and excellent communication abilities. Join a collaborative environment that prioritizes talent and fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Experience in volatility trading strategies.
• Strong intuition in financial mathematics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support portfolio managers trading derivatives.
• Develop and validate parameter models.
• Lead efforts on vol surface parameterization and modeling.

Skills

Experience with volatility trading strategies

Strong background in financial mathematics

Excellent communication skills

Experience working with quantitative risk teams

Strong ownership experience

Job description

We are seeking a highly qualified and talented Quantitative Strategist to support the Volatility and Emerging-markets + delta-1 trading teams. 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.

What you’ll do

As 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.

You will be leading efforts on:

• Vol surface parameterization and modelling
• Vol product pricing, risk representation and rationalisation
• Vol PnL explanations & attribution
• Scenario construction and book behaviour

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• Experience with volatility trading strategies
• Strong background and intuition in financial mathematics, adopting a first-principles approach to understanding product behavior
• Experience working with quantitative risk teams, traders, and portfolio managers
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with production environments
• Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

Our Culture

The 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. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses.

Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within themarkets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

Individuals seeking employment at Schonfeld are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.