Quantitative Project Manager

Job Description

City based Investment Bank are seeking an Quantitative Project Manager to work within their Quantitative Development team supporting Fixed Income and cross assets analytics. This is a Hands-on role for someone with a strong delivery mindset, front-office projects experience and enough technical understanding to efficiency manage complex quant and risk projects.

This is a hybrid role, requiring 4 days in the London office. It’s an initial 6-12 month Inside IR35 contract with a strong possibility of converting to FTC. Day rate is between £700 - 800 per day.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Solid Agile project delivery, ideally within front-office environments.
• Strong proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Agile methodologies.
• Some exposure to Excel / Python tooling, one either C++ / C#
• Excellent understanding of: Derivatives products (Swaps, Futures, Options, etc), cross assets; Fixed Income e-trading workflows including pricing, quoting, hedging and execution; P&L, Greeks, sensitivities, risk explain processes & Quant libraries
• Familiarity with front-to-back trading systems: eg Calypso, Murex or in-house systems.
• Trade lifecycle knowledge: pricing, booking, trade capture, risk.
• Excellent stakeholder management: confident interfacing with traders, quants, dev and support

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take ownership of project and delivery tracking, working closely with quants and trading.
• Run Jira-based workflows (e.g Kanban), organize epics, prioritize work and maintain delivery visibility.
• Follow up on production and support issues-triage, escalate and drive toward a permanent resolution.
• Filter, structure, an clarify trader or stakeholder request before they hit the Engineering teams backlog.
• Coordinate across teams (quant, desk, dev, infra, support) to streamline delivery and improve efficiency.
• Support integration of models and tools across risk and pricing infrastructure.
• Manage platform migrations of legacy pricing and risk analytics.

If you are a proven QUANTS PM looking for a new opportunity, please send your CV in word format for the attention of ALISON CALDER.