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Totem Product Analysis & Design Associate Director

The TOTEM service, founded in 1997, provides the major market makers in OTC derivatives with definitive consensus market prices. More than 50 of the leading banks, trading houses and other investment professionals use the TOTEM service as the key independent check of their trading book valuations. The service encompasses the equity, interest rates, currency, commodity, credit and bond markets, providing comprehensive matrices of vanilla prices and a wide selection of exotic products.

• Driving the Totem Product forward by focusing on the pillars of Coverage, Accuracy, and Transparency, leveraging expertise in financial markets.
• Connecting customer-facing teams with Development teams to improve Totem Product by delivering new features.
• Providing tactical solutions for all new initiatives related to the Totem Product through an innovative and centralized platform powered by AWS and Python.
• Utilizing data science and AI to drive new initiatives based on Totem's unique proprietary data.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the conception, development, maintenance, and enhancement of consensus services across all asset classes. This role involves collaborating with client-facing analysts and the IT department to deliver forward-thinking solutions, both standard and tactical. The role encompasses areas such as product design, data analysis, machine learning, software development, innovation, business, and customer presentations.

• Providing data analysis by combining internal and external datasets to drive new feature adoption from our customers.
• Interacting closely with Business Development, Product Services and IT to deliver a better product overall and participate in driving the business and identifying product opportunities.
• Providing tactical solutions to answer requirements on consensus services.

• Undergraduate or Master's degree in a financial or quantitative discipline.
• Proven track record in dealing with derivatives financial instruments as either Product Control specialist, Pricing role or Risk Management in a financial institution.
• Over 6 years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical, quantitative and problem solving skills.
• Data analysis skills.
• Proficiency in Python desirable.
• Expertise in a financial derivatives asset class a plus (preferably interest rates derivatives).
• Prior industry experience at reputable financial institutions or financial services firm is desirable.
• Practical understanding of the basics of mathematical finance and derivatives pricing.
• Ability to challenge rather than apply processes in place.

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