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Director, Equity Derivatives Quant - Toronto

Scotiabankabout 1 month ago
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Toronto, ON
Senior Level

About the role

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the Global Analytics and Financial Engineering in US ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

What You'll Do

  • Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
  • Develops valuation models for equity derivatives flow and exotics products, and ensures the theoretical soundness, the numerical accuracy, and the implementation correctness of these models
  • Provide quantitative support to the equity derivatives and structured notes business globally
  • Develops robust, reliable and user friendly front office analytics for pricing, hedging, risk management and P&L attribution for both intraday and end of day
  • Provides daily and on demand quantitative support to the business in a timely manner related to valuation, risks, PnL attribution, hedging and so on
  • Provides subject matter expertise to model stakeholders such as the business, risk management, audit, product control and technology groups during and post of the model implementation
  • Forms a close partnership with the business to deliver models and analytics to production from end to  end with limited supervision
  • Keep oneself current on the advancements of models and related technology, and proactively introduces these advancements into the bank.
  • Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
  • Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.

What You'll Bring

  • PhD or Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics or other quantitative areas
  • 6+ years’ experience in equity derivatives and structured notes products and their valuation models
  • Knowledge of local volatility, stochastic volatility, multi-asset valuation, calibration schemes
  • Solid background in PDE, Monte-Carlo and stochastic calculus
  • Strong programming skills in C++, C++11 or higher version; experience with other programming languages such as Python
  • Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

Work Arrangement:

This position is currently an on-site role, with the expectation that you will work at least 4 days a week in the office. Please note that this is subject to change based on the needs of the business.

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