Financial Engineer, truView, Vice President

Job summary

The Financial Engineering team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of valuation models for cash and derivative instruments. Members also collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure models are documented, understood, and updated based on market changes.

Job details

Financial Engineer (VP), truView truView is a multi-asset-class analytics platform offered as a service to clients of State Street. Initially developed to serve hedge funds within State Street’s IFS subsidiary, truView now serves a wide variety of institutional investors, including pension funds, asset managers, and insurance companies, in addition to a growing portfolio of hedge fund clients. The system currently processes more than 10 million positions per day. The Position truView’s risk measurements are done using a full repricing methodology, requiring a large array of valuation models for cash and derivative instruments. The Financial Engineering team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and ongoing support of these models. These responsibilities extend to representations of trades, the market data appropriate for valuing them, analytics output by the model for aggregation with other instruments, and the overall performance of the risk model. The role requires significant independent ownership of pricing models, from understanding product payoffs and selecting appropriate methodologies through model specification, implementation, testing, validation and production support. As part of its responsibilities, the FE team communicates with internal and external stakeholders—senior management, operations staff, model validators, and client representatives—to ensure that models are documented, understood, and updated where appropriate based on client requests or market changes. The Work A member of the FE team works on a variety of projects and tasks, including: Proof of concept for new modeling methods Definition and evaluation of required market data Prototyping of new or enhanced models Formulations of model specs for implementation by developers Testing of new model implementations Production support of new and existing models Design and maintain economics scenarios Assisting on building new infrastructure of the product Communication with internal and external stakeholders on modeling choices Technical guidance and mentoring of junior Financial Engineers Those with VP positions within the team usually manage a small group typically focused on a group of related products. However, as dictated by priorities and available capacity, any member of the team may be called on to collaborate on important projects as needed. The emphasis across the entire group is on delivery of scalable approaches to production in a timely fashion, but quality and consistency of model results, as well as robustness within a highly automated platform, are essential. Qualifications Graduate degree in finance, financial engineering, mathematical finance, statistics, econometrics or similar Extensive knowledge of and experience with the pricing theory of a variety of financial derivatives. 10+ years in quantitative risk-related positions, including arbitrage-free valuation models Demonstrated hands-on experience in independently owning pricing or valuation models end-to-end Extensive familiarity with industry standard risk analytics and stress testing methods Broad experience and deep practical understanding of with market and portfolio risk framework Strong ability to independently investigate model discrepancies and clearly communicate modeling choices, assumptions and limitations to technical and non-technical stakeholders Comfort with VBA and SQL, familiarity with C++/C#, Python, R Communications skills appropriate for support of coworkers located in a variety of global locations Excellent problem solver Proactive in raising questions and independent in executing daily job Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentor junior team members Strong focus on quality and on addressing client needs Desirable Experience with exotic interest rate and FX derivatives Experience with inflation derivatives Familiar with securitized products Experience with production model governance, validation or large-scale pricing/risk platform ABOUT STATE STREET Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. 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What you’ll do

The Financial Engineering team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of valuation models for cash and derivative instruments. Members also collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure models are documented, understood, and updated based on market changes.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a graduate degree in a quantitative field and possess at least 6 years of experience in quantitative risk-related positions. Extensive knowledge of derivative pricing theory and proficiency in programming languages like SQL, VBA, and C++/Python is required.

Benefits

• Inclusive development opportunities
• Flexible work-life support
• Paid volunteer days
• Employee networks

Listed skills

• SQL · Preferred
• C++ · Preferred
• Python · Preferred
• Data analysis · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred
• Team Leadership · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Financial engineering
• Derivative pricing
• Quantitative risk
• VBA
• SQL
• C++
• C#
• Python
• R
• Stress testing
• Valuation models
• Data analysis
• Stakeholder management
• Team leadership
• Risk analytics
• Model validation
• Risk Modeling
• Financial Stress Testing
• Risk Analytics
• Interest Rates
• Valuation Models
• Arbitrage
• Asset Allocation
• Automation
• Management
• C# (Programming Language)
• C++ (Programming Language)
• Communication
• Mathematical Finance
• Economics
• Econometrics
• Finance
• Financial Engineering
• R (Programming Language)
• Leadership
• Hedge Funds
• Scalability
• Institutional Investing
• Problem Solving
• Python (Programming Language)
• Life Support
• Market Data
• Operations
• Pension Funds
• Prototyping
• SQL (Programming Language)
• Statistics
• Visual Basic For Applications
• Derivatives

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