
Risk Quant
- Central Region, Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Model Validation: Evaluate the correctness, robustness, and performance of internal models used for market, credit, and liquidity risk across digital assets and derivatives.
- Independent Review & Testing: Perform conceptual soundness reviews, statistical analysis, benchmarking against alternative models, back-testing, and stress-testing of models.
- Risk Governance & Documentation: Contribute to the development of model risk governance frameworks. Prepare detailed validation reports and work with stakeholders to remediate model weaknesses.
- Risk Modelling Architecture: Build user interfaces for risk teams to easily access in-house risk models and tools, streamlining risk workflows and usability.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with model developers, risk managers, and trading teams to ensure model effectiveness, transparency, and alignment with business needs.
- Regulatory Awareness: Stay current with evolving regulatory expectations (e.g., Basel guidelines), industry standards, and risk management practices.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Provide guidance to junior quants and contribute to a culture of rigor, innovation, and accountability.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics,
- Computer Science, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline; Master's or PhD preferred
- Strong experience in model validation within financial institutions, ideally involving derivative pricing or quantitative risk
- Expertise in derivatives pricing theory (e.g., Black-Scholes, local/stochastic volatility models, Dupire Local volatility, etc.)
- Proficiency in Python or C#; experience with quantitative libraries and tools for simulation and numerical analysis
- Familiarity with model risk frameworks and regulatory standards such as SR 11-7 or Basel III
- Understanding of blockchain technology and digital assets; familiarity with on-chain data a plus
- Strong analytical and communication skills; capable of articulating complex technical matters to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work independently in a high-performance, fast-paced trading environment