VP, Rates Quantitative Analyst
StaffRight Associates, LLC
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Job Details
Skills
- Interest Rate Derivatives
- Swaps
- Swaptions
- Caps/Floors
- Futures
- Futures Options
- Financial Markets
- Interest Rate Products
- Excel
- VBA
- Python
- C#
- C++
- Attention To Detail
- Organizational Skills
- Communication Skills
Summary
VP, Rates Quantitative Analyst
The Opportunity
StaffRight Associates is recruiting for a VP, Rates Quantitative Analyst to join the sales and trading business of a global financial services organization. This high-visibility seat sits embedded with the rates trading desk, where quantitative skill translates directly into revenue, sharper risk insight, and more efficient trading. The role is based in New York City on a hybrid schedule: four days per week in the office, with scheduled work-from-home days. As the VP, Rates Quantitative Analyst, you will serve as the desk's go-to technical partner, building the analytics traders depend on daily while collaborating with a globally distributed quant team.
What You'll Do
- Engineer, enhance, and maintain pricing, risk, and analytics tools supporting the interest rate derivatives sales & trading desk
- Drive desk profitability through targeted research, optimization initiatives, and process efficiency gains
- Diagnose and resolve P&L variances, risk mismatches, and intricate pricing questions as they surface
- Partner directly with front-office stakeholders to translate business needs into technical deliverables and set clear delivery expectations
- Oversee daily server-side processes, safeguarding output accuracy and system stability
- Pivot rapidly as priorities shift, delivering targeted, on-demand solutions when the desk needs them
- Collaborate with quant colleagues worldwide, exchanging expertise and best practices
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or scientific discipline, e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science
- At least 5 years of hands-on work with Interest Rate Derivatives, including Swaps, Swaptions, Caps/Floors, Futures, and Futures Options
- Proven experience working side by side with front-office sales and trading professionals
- Deep command of Financial Markets, with particular strength in Interest Rate Products
- Advanced Excel and VBA development capabilities
- Programming proficiency in Python, C#, and/or C++
- A technically driven mindset with exceptional Attention To Detail
- Self-motivated, with strong Organizational Skills
- Composure and resilience, with a record of delivering results under pressure on a fast-moving desk
- Polished written and verbal Communication Skills
- Willingness to travel occasionally
- Visa candidates will be considered; security clearance is not required
Compensation & Total Rewards
- Engagement: Full-time; hybrid in New York City, New York, United States (four days per week in office, with scheduled work-from-home days)
- Benefits: Comprehensive health and wellness coverage, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays
- Relocation: Assistance possible for the ideal candidate
Joining StaffRight Associates
When you partner with StaffRight Associates in your search for your next role, you're doing more than pursuing a job, you're aligning yourself with a team of experts committed to placing top-tier talent in truly impactful positions. We take pride in fostering professional growth and connecting forward-thinking individuals with organizations that value innovation and excellence. We look forward to showcasing your expertise in a way that resonates with our clients and opens the door to meaningful opportunities.
- Dice Id: 90939179
- Position Id: 9140519
- Posted 2 hours ago
Company Info
About StaffRight Associates, LLC
StaffRight Associates is a premier recruitment and staffing partner that provides talent to a broad and diverse range of corporate disciplines. StaffRight was crafted out of an industry need to better manage the processes and complexities of today’s recruitment and staffing demands. With company beginnings formulated in the industry over 30 years ago, our founder realized that there was a definitive need to utilize recruitment and staffing more efficiently and effectively than what has been the typical industry standard model. StaffRight is dedicated to servicing our clients with a comprehensive, scientific approach of refining the process throughout our clients' engagements.
Understanding and committing to our employees is critical to the growth and sustainability of StaffRight. We are of the opinion that regardless of their expertise, a successful company needs great people. The success of an employee is realized in a variety of different ways, but for us, we go well beyond one's credentials and interview. Finding the best employees who possess the needed skills, experience, and education are certainly key in a hire, but to truly find great employees who feel they are an integral part of the company, it takes tremendous insight in understanding what makes someone successful. Passion for one’s work, commitment to excellence, and having a ‘get it done’ attitude are essential for a great employee. Having these qualities also goes a long way in ensuring that an employee always has the client's best interests in mind. Great employees are passionate about their work and the company where they hang their jacket. Additionally, we believe that having refined and solid communication skills is also paramount in enabling all employees to work together towards the common goals and successes of the company. This collaboration is very much based on our employees' ability to listen to others and respond effectively, both internally with each other, and externally to our clients.
