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-Job description

**Some careers shine brighter than others.**

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

**Some careers shine brighter than others.**

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions

**Role Purpose**

The role offers an exciting opportunity to work in the Equity Derivatives quants team, which gives the challenges and learning given by a FO role, in dealing with cutting edge pricing models, derivative products which directly contribute to the PNL of our books.

**The Opportunity**:

- Development and validation of new products to support complex new trades
- Development of new models and validation of reserves methodologies
- Participate in the implementation of the model governance framework

**What you’ll do**:

- The key responsibilities KPI are listed in the below table.

**Impact on the Business**
- Developing and enhancing the available products and models available to trade
- Enhance reserve methodologies
- Enhance model performance monitoring
- Timely completion of model development tasks with little or no bugs
- Positive feedback from the trading, structuring and valuation control desks
- Successful release of new models in quant libraries

**Customers/Stakeholders**
- Resolving issues raised by users and IT teams in using the Quant libraries.
- Positive feedback from Trading/Structuring/IT
- Successful integration of our libraries by IT

**Leadership and Teamwork**
- Assisting other members of the Equities Quant team with technical issues.
- Assisting IT with any integration issues they may have with our libraries.
- Positive feedback
- Positive feedback
- Quicker turnaround for IT

**Operational Effectiveness and Control**
- Following internal and regulatory guidelines for Releases and Documentation of the Quant libraries and tools
- Define and run the relevant tests
- Being able to roll back to a different version of the codebase, thanks to a robust versioning

**Major Challenges **_(The challenges inherent in the role that require a continual test of the role holder’s abilities)_
- Programming in a professional standard ensuring industry good practices are followed.
- Development and deployment of features/bug fixes/components within reasonable and predictable timelines
- Proper monitoring and follow up of feedbacks/requests
- Continuous and proactive interaction with the relevant stakeholders

**Role Context**_(The environment and operating conditions of the role including the extent of guidance and authority)_
- Provide support of product development tasks:

- Develops new products with their appropriate model, model calibration tools and risks.
- Develops and maintains complex products such as Vol Caps, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Collateralized Loans, new one-off trades
- Defines model reserves methodologies in collaboration with Product Control and Trading. Monitors these reserves. Contributes to their industrialization
- Participate in Model Governance - Development of model performance indicators, Liaise with IMR in Model reviews and implement remediative actions to findings arising from such reviews.
- Develop and maintain a testing framework for new products and models
- Day to day support / Bugs fixing
- Assist in the release of the Quant libraries and tools
- Assist in deploying the product development tools to users

**Management of Risk**:

- (Operational Risk / FIM requirements)_
- Is aware of the Operational Risk scenario associated with the role and acts in a manner that takes account of operational risk considerations.

**Observation of Internal Controls**
- Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators.
- Understands, follows and demonstrates compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that