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Quantitative Risk Analyst

DV Trading

$200,000 - $250,000
Aug 29, 2025
Chicago, IL, US
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The firm is seeking to enhance its risk management framework by designing and managing calculations and metrics essential to robust risk oversight.

Requirements

  • Experience with derivatives pricing (forwards, futures, options, swaps, exotics).
  • Strong understanding of financial instruments, pricing methodologies, risk metrics, and market conventions across regions.
  • Proficiency in Python for data analysis and automation.
  • Proficiency in SQL for database management and data querying.
  • Familiarity with Bloomberg, Reuters, or other real-time market data systems.
  • Experience with risk and P&L systems, especially across multi-region time zones, is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage theoretical end-of-day and real-time P&L calculations across multiple asset classes, financial instruments, and trading strategies across the firm.
  • Implement and maintain pricing methodologies to obtain theoretical values for illiquid products.
  • Develop and document processes for handling regional market closures, holidays, and other disruptions affecting P&L calculations.
  • Design and manage internal controls around automated P&L generation, ensuring compliance with firm-wide risk management and reporting standards.
  • Work closely with the quant risk team to leverage P&L data for developing single trader and portfolio-level analytics, market exposure analysis, and risk and performance metrics.
  • Perform validation of daily P&L data before final distribution to traders, risk management, and senior leadership.

Other

  • Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or STEM fields.
  • A master’s degree in a data-intensive field (e.g., Data Science, Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, or Engineering) is preferred.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or bank's trading desk, with a focus on P&L, performance data, and quant analytics.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong attention to detail.