XVA Strats – Quantitative Analyst / Associate

XVA Strats – Quantitative Analyst / Associate

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

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Role Overview

We are looking for candidates to join the London XVA strat team. The XVA Desk is a unit within Fixed Income (FID) and focuses on pricing and hedging Counterparty Credit Risk. The candidate will work closely with XVA strats and traders in London (as well as the global team), with credit/market/model risk management, controllers, and IT. The candidate will require deep understanding of high-level mathematical models used for pricing financial products or mitigating risks, and an ability to interact and cooperate with global teams. 

Qualifications
You will:

• Develop new pricing models and maintain and improve existing models: this will involve developing the mathematical model, scripting it as a prototype and then inserting it in the code so that IT can take it to production
• Work with traders to price incoming trades
• Work with controllers and the model risk groups on model documentation and approval

You have:

• MSc. or PhD in mathematical finance, mathematics, physics, or engineering.
• Solid mathematical foundations, especially probability theory and statistics.
• Basic experience on an Exotic trading desk would be ideal
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong scripting / coding skills (Python, C++; Scala a plus)
• Strong communication skills to interact with trading desk

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