Corporate Investment Quantitative Financial Senior Analyst

Description

Within Corporate Investments Group, expertise in two or more or deep mastery of one of the following disciplines : Coding, Scripting / Implementation, Mathematical Modeling, Economics, Statistics, Theory / Valuation or Financial Economics.

Responsible for conducting quantitative analytics and modeling projects incorporating quantitative problem solving skills with intuition.

Responsible for developing new models, analytic processes or systems approaches. Possesses excellent quantitative / analytic skills and a broad knowledge of financial markets and products.

The Quantitative Finance Group at Bank of America develops and operates an analytical computing platform spanning multiple geographical locations and including thousands of Linux compute cores.

The platform is used by Bank of America to manage an $800B fixed income portfolio and to assist with business strategy and ad-hoc financial decisions at the highest levels of the Bank.

Seeking a quantitative strategist / developer to join the front office Treasury Desk Strats team. The individual must be a self-starter and will be responsible for the development and maintenance of analytics and automation tools for the CIO (Chief Investment Office) trading desk and the various groups in Corporate Treasury across all asset classes.

The individual should have a passion for writing user friendly APIs and maintain discipline in working towards the best technical solution / architecture by balancing tactical and strategic implementations according to the context and business needs.

Skills : Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking

Application Development

Automation

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Business Intelligence

Data Modeling

Financial Management

Solution Delivery Process

Business Analytics

Required Qualifications :

Advanced coding and debugging skills in Python and SQL with the ability to write clear, concise, well-structured and maintainable code using object-oriented and functional programming concepts.

Additional expertise in VBA and / or Perl would be a plus.

Solid track record of delivering production quality tools to front office desks with an emphasis on speed to market

Effective verbal and written communication skills to facilitate collaboration across various business partners to develop, simplify and optimize process flow

Work closely with the front office, middle office, and technology teams to help identify and solve time-sensitive issues that might arise in the trade booking process

Ability to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision

Strong attention to detail

Desired Qualifications :

Degree in a quantitative field or prior equivalent work experience demonstrating outstanding coding and / or quantitative skills

Practical understanding of financial instruments spanning multiple asset classes especially mortgages, sovereign bonds and their hedging derivatives

The ability to work alone with minimal supervision or collaboratively within a team depending on the project

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

Strong desire to learn / develop / support service-oriented architectures and modern web technologies (client and / or server)

Experience with parallel / distributed computing

Experience with UNIX / LINUX, Git, Web technologies, KDB, AMPS

Shift :

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week :