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Goldman Sachs Bank AG
City of London
1 month ago
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FICC Quantitative Researcher, Associate / VP, London


We are a team of FICC Quantitative Researchers who work to transform the Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) business through quantitative trading, automating the key decisions taken every day. Our team has a wide remit across product types such as Interest Rates (IR), Foreign Exchange (FX), Credit, and Commodities, with strategies including market making, automatic quoting, central risk books, systematic trading, and algorithmic execution, trading on venues around the world. We deploy statistical analysis techniques and mathematical models, including advanced machine learning and AI, to improve business performance while working closely with traders and salespeople on the trading floor to bring value to our clients and the firm.


Role Responsibilities:

  • Take a leading role on our Quantitative Trading & Market Making desk, building market making and quoting strategies across FICC products.
  • Use advanced statistical analysis and quantitative techniques such as neural networks, machine learning, and factor models to build models that drive systematic alpha strategies which make real-time trading and risk management decisions.
  • Implement frameworks to manage risk centrally and build optimal portfolios across FICC asset classes.
  • Build model calibration frameworks for our advanced statistical and AI models, operating at scale with large quantities of time series data, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
  • Drive our market making strategy development using a range of technologies, and collaborate closely with Quant Developers and core engineering teams to enhance core analytics infrastructure and trading tools.
  • Develop and enhance critical pricing, trading, and risk tools, and create new frameworks leveraging trade and franchise data to optimize and systematize market making and hedging strategies.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Excellent academic record in a relevant quantitative field such as physics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or computer science.
  • Strong programming skills in an object-oriented or functional paradigm such as C++, Java, or Python.
  • Self-starter with strong self-management skills, ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver in a high-pressure environment.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex quantitative concepts to both technical and non-technical


ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.


We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.


We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html


Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.


Healthcare & Medical Insurance


We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.


We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.


Financial Wellness & Retirement


We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.


Health Services


We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.


Fitness


To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).


Child Care & Family Care


We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.


Benefits at Goldman Sachs


Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.


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