Assistant Manager - Complex Security - Fixed Income Valuation/Derivatives - Big4

We are hiring for Assistant Manager-Complex Security with one of the Big 4's.

Responsibilities

As an Assistant Manager in the Complex Securities team, you will:

- Serve as a member of multiple client engagement teams, taking a lead role in understanding clients- needs, conducting analyses and reporting results

- Develop models to value a variety of financial instruments and to analyze various business situations, using option pricing theory, fixed income and structured finance models, Monte Carlo simulation, statistical analysis, optimization, decision analysis and other techniques from the financial engineering or decision sciences literature

- Challenge yourself to continually learn and teach, mentoring others while developing your own career

- Take ownership of your projects, while working collaboratively with other team members

- Maintain and develop positive, productive, and professional relationships with clients

To qualify, candidates must have:

- An advanced degree (masters or Ph.D.) in a quantitative discipline, with demonstrated aptitude in quantitative and qualitative analysis, or equivalent experience

- A minimum of 2-3 years of relevant experience with a national valuation firm or accounting firm's valuation practice, or in quantitative management or litigation consulting, investment banking, private equity/venture capital or commercial banking

- Experience in valuing complex securities, including options, warrants, fixed income securities, structured products and other derivatives, or in analyzing complex business situations using quantitative models

- Excellent analytical, project-management, communication, interpersonal, and teaming skills

- The ability to work within a given budget and schedule, providing top-quality results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

- PC proficiency including at least one Financial Engineering or statistical software package (e.g. Matlab or Stata), Bloomberg, MS Excel/VBA, Word, and PowerPoint

- Achievement of or significant progress towards a CFA, FRM, PRM or ASA/AM designation is a plus, with an expectation of the completion of one designation within a given timeframe

The successful candidate must be committed to staying at the cutting edge of both the latest valuation and modeling techniques and the financial and accounting standards that guide the use of these techniques. We're seeking leaders with the ability to quickly anticipate and respond to the issues of this challenging area.

Jagriti Wadhwa