# Quantitative Analyst

**Company:** [StradIT](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/gUMYmaPRJguCYquNxEjRoL.md)
**Location:** Jersey City, United States
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Contract

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## Description

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain and enhance in-house fixed income risk models

• Design and produce model performance metrics and reports to support communications with both internal model users and external supervisors

• Independently format and validate analysis results to ensure quality

## Requirements

Qualifications:

•5+ years of working experience and must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in quantitative models, research, with deep understanding in fixed income and/or market risk.

•Fluent in at least one high level programming language (Python, C++, Java, etc.). Familiarity with SQL is a plus.

•Knowledge of treasury securities and/or mortgage-backed securities pricing and VaR modeling a big plus

•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

•Excellent communication skills, both oral and written

•Master’s degree or above in a quantitative field of study