Quantitative Analyst

Job Title: Quantitative Analyst
Location: New Jersey (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite)
Shift Schedule: Monday – Friday (9am – 5pm)
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months.

Pay Rate: $100/hr on W2

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.

Qualifications

• 5 years of working experience and must have 3 years of hands-on experience in quantitative models and 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 is 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.