Assistant Vice President - Quantitative Risk Management - Group Risk Management (12 months contract)
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Company Introduction: We're home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets. Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day. HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all." Job Summary: Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) is responsible for providing governance to the first line risk teams across all HKEX group clearing houses on initiatives such as new product/service launch, methodology changes and model parameter reviews. The team is also responsible for establishing the model risk governance framework of the group, financial risk policy / appetite reviews, group level financial risk data management and other group risk management related quantitative modelling works for continued enhancements of its risk management capabilities. Job Duties: Responsibilities:
- Join a high calibre team of quant analysts and developers within the Group Quant Risk team in HK.
- Participate actively in model implementation, testing, analysis, and data collection and clean-up etc.
- Develop and maintain of our pricing/risk models and infrastructure components.
- Support and liaise with risk management units on quantitative issues such as pricing, risk analysis, historical analysis, and statistical analysis.
- Collaborate closely with the model validation team to facilitate the validation of the models that the team developed.
- Work with the Data teams in order to support the production and be able to roll out in a timely fashion our new models or fixes.
- A Master/PhD degree in a highly quantitative field (Physics, Mathematics, Financial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics etc.)
- 3+ years experiences in financial markets, and hands-on experiences in derivatives pricing, risk modelling and proven record of delivering high quality results
- Experience and proficiency in Python are preferred
- Experiences in large datasets, tick data experience are highly regarded
- Knowledge of order management and market micro-structure is preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Outstanding aptitude for teamwork and willingness to learn
- Good written and verbal communication skills are required
- Fluent in English
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