Quantitative Research (QR) is an expert quantitative modeling group in J.P. Morgan, as well as a leader in financial engineering, data analytics, statistical modeling and portfolio management. As a global team, QR partners with traders, marketers and risk managers across all products and regions, contributes to sales and client interaction, product innovation, valuation and risk management, inventory and portfolio optimization, electronic trading and market making, and appropriate financial risk controls.
Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Quant/Strat to join our Funds Services team in London. This group is within Securities Services Quantitative Research and part of the global Quantitative Research Group.
The Funds Services QR team's mission is to leverage the quant library and development platforms in order to deliver a wide product offering to our clients. This covers vanilla flow products to complex instruments. We also develop and maintain analytics and mathematical models that add value to the business and/or help improve the efficiency of our colleagues and internal clients worldwide. We work closely with our Technology and business partners to deliver our solutions in production.
You will be a part of the team that is helping to transform business practices through automation and quantitative methods where JP Morgan is a dominant player.
In addition, we are providing on job training, intensive internal classroom training, and online courses, all given by our experienced quants. Through the diversity of the businesses it supports and the variety of functions that it is responsible for, Quantitative Research group provides unique growth opportunities for you to develop your abilities and your career.
We make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental and physical health needs or particular family considerations.
If you are passionate, curious and ready to make an impact, we are looking for you.
Your Impact
You’ll contribute to the Funds Services strategic agenda. Specially, you’ll have the chance to
- Leverage JPM internal libraries to add coverage of new products;
- Create new risk management solutions for internal and external clients;
- Implement and deliver analytics that increase the capabilities of the Funds Services platform and add value;
- Transforming the business by contributing to the automation agenda;
- Working closely with our business partners to solve problems and identify new opportunities to generate revenue;
- Partner with Technology to deliver QR analytics to the business;
- Drive projects end-to-end, from brainstorming and prototyping to production delivery;
- Present QR work to key stakeholders.
About You
- You have strong coding skills;
- You are able to navigate large libraries;
- You have experience in derivatives products.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree (PhD, MSc or equivalent) in Computer Science and/or Statistics;
- Previous experience in a trading desk support position (either as a quant or a developer);
- Understanding of risk drivers in derivative products.
Beyond that, we’re interested in the things that make you unique: personal qualities, outside interests and achievements beyond academia and profession that demonstrate the kind of person you are and the differences you could bring to the team.
