Front Office Quant Risk Lead for Exotic Derivatives

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd seeks a desk-facing Quantitative Risk professional to join the Front Office trading desk in Singapore. You will collaborate with traders and structurers to build, calibrate, and implement advanced pricing models and risk analytics for exotic derivatives and structured products.

The role emphasizes close interaction with traders, multi-year project leadership, model risk discussions, and delivering cutting-edge trading tools in a high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a highly quantitative discipline.
• 6+ years of front-office quantitative analytics experience.
• Strong ability to translate complex math for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Sit on or directly face the trading desk and work with traders to engineer real-time trading tools.
• Lead multi-year quantitative projects and manage control frameworks, mentoring junior quant developers.
• Explain model behaviors, assumptions and limitations to senior management, Model Risk Management, and compliance.

Skills

Front-office quant analytics

Communication with traders

Mathematical modeling

Education

Master's degree in Financial Mathematics / Mathematics / Physics / Statistics / Engineering

Job description

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd seeks a desk-facing Quantitative Risk professional to join the Front Office trading desk in Singapore. You will collaborate with traders and structurers to build, calibrate, and implement advanced pricing models and risk analytics for exotic derivatives and structured products.

The role emphasizes close interaction with traders, multi-year project leadership, model risk discussions, and delivering cutting-edge trading tools in a high-impact environment.