Senior Quantitative Analytics Specialist - Hybrid, Charlotte

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC seeks a Quantitative Analytics Specialist for a hybrid Charlotte, NC contract role. You will build, validate, and maintain advanced quantitative models and risk tools, collaborating with traders and engineers to deliver production-ready solutions.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in quantitative analytics, expert Python skills, SQL proficiency, and experience with cross-margin and capital markets models.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quantitative analytics.
• Expert-level Python for building quant libraries.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (Copilot or similar).
• SQL expertise to query and manipulate large datasets.
• Strong numerical skills with stochastic modeling and capital markets models.
• Ability to derive mathematical formulas and implement programmatically.
• Solid understanding of cross-margining concepts in prime brokerage or derivatives clearing.
• Ability to identify and fix model gaps, inconsistencies, or legacy issues.
• Foundation in probability, statistics, and stochastic processes.

Responsibilities

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Quantitative Analytics.
• Review and analyze complex challenges needing evaluation of multiple factors.
• Contribute to resolving complex situations meeting deliverables and compliance.
• Collaborate with Client personnel across teams and functions.
• Modeling & quantitative analysis and develop, enhance risk models.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain counterparty credit risk models related to cross-margin methodologies.
• Derive analytical formulas, validate assumptions, and identify gaps in implementations.
• Improve or replace outdated models using modern stochastic and capital markets techniques.
• Support modeling across diverse financial products: equity swaps, metals, energy derivatives, convertible bonds.
• Lead build-out and integration of Python-based quantitative libraries for model development and validation.

Skills

Python

Copilot / AI tooling

SQL

Stochastic modeling

Capital markets

Model validation

Derivatives knowledge

Cross-margin concepts

Quant libraries

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC seeks a Quantitative Analytics Specialist for a hybrid Charlotte, NC contract role. You will build, validate, and maintain advanced quantitative models and risk tools, collaborating with traders and engineers to deliver production-ready solutions.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in quantitative analytics, expert Python skills, SQL proficiency, and experience with cross-margin and capital markets models.