Strategist, Risk

Schonfeld
São Paulo, Brazil

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with strong quantitative and modeling expertise working in emerging markets and derivatives trading environments.

Best fit for

  • Individuals who have worked in centralized quantitative risk teams across multiple markets
    — “centralized Strategist team, working on vanilla and exotic product modelling”
  • Professionals with a background in financial mathematics and who can apply first-principles thinking to product behavior
    — “first-principles approach to understanding product behavior”

Things to consider

  • Candidates should be prepared to engage in production environments and deliver results consistently
    — “Experience with production environments”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your experience with stressed market scenarios and predictive modeling in your resume and interviews
    — “creating and understanding stressed market scenarios”
  • Highlight your ability to maintain and extend centralized risk and valuation libraries
    — “maintaining and extending a centralized library for valuation and risk calculations”
  • Demonstrate your communication skills with examples of explaining complex financial models to non-technical stakeholders
    — “Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Support portfolio managers in risk representation and understanding
  • Develop models to predict product and book behavior in stressed market scenarios
Typical background
Strong background in financial mathematicsExperience with quantitative risk teams

Skills & requirements

Required

PythonEquity DerivativesFinancial MathematicsQuantitative RiskCommunication SkillsProduction EnvironmentsOwnership Experience

Preferred

Experience With Production Environments

Stack & domain

PythonEquity DerivativesFinancial MathematicsQuantitative Risk TeamsProduction EnvironmentsOwnership ExperienceCommunication SkillsFinance

About the role

Original posting from Schonfeld via Greenhouse

The Role

We are seeking a highly qualified and talented Quantitative Strategist to support the Emerging-markets + delta-1, & volatility trading teams. You will work as part of a centralized Strategist team, working on vanilla and exotic product modelling, parameter marking and risk representation across geographies and markets.

What you’ll do 

As a Strategist, you will support portfolio managers trading derivatives in representing, rationalizing and understanding risk at a product and book level– ensuring that risk is accurate and economically consistent with product/payoff definitions. In addition, there will be focus on creating and understanding stressed market scenarios and developing modelling to predict product + book behavior in those environments. You will support portfolio managers and traders maintaining and extending a centralized library for valuation and risk calculations.

What you’ll bring

What you need:

Strong Python skills

Experience with equity derivatives

Strong background and intuition in financial mathematics, adopting a first-principles approach to understanding product behavior

Experience working with quantitative risk teams, traders, and portfolio managers

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Experience with production environments

Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

Who we are  

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance.

We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income. We capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets, drawing from a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.

We invest through internal portfolio managers and external partner funds, pursuing alignment among investors, investment professionals, and the firm. Our footprint spans 7 countries and 19 offices.

Our Culture

Talent is our strategy. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative, and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning & educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.

We foster a sense of belonging among all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. Our employees value diversity across identity, thought, people and perspective which serves as the foundation of our culture. As a firm, we are committed to creating a hiring process that is fair, welcoming and supportive.

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Source: Schonfeld careers (Greenhouse)

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