Project Manager - Quants/Front Office

City based Investment Bank are seeking anAgile Delivery Lead / Quants Project Managerto work within theirQuants Developmentteam supporting Fixed Income and cross assets analytics. This is a Hands-on role for someone with a strong delivery mindset, front-office projects experience and enough technical understanding to efficiency manage complex quant and risk projects.

This is a hybrid role, requiring 4 days in the London office. It's an initial 6-12 month contract with a strong possibility of converting to FTC.

SKILLS:With solid experience in Front Office builds, you must have:

• Solid Agile project delivery, ideally within front-office environments.
• Strong proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Agile methodologies.
• Some exposure to Excel / Python tooling, one either C++ / C#
• Excellent understanding of:Derivatives products (Swaps, Futures, Options, etc), cross assets; Fixed Income e-trading workflows including pricing, quoting, hedging and execution; P&L, Greeks, sensitivities, risk explain processes & Quant libraries
• Familiarity with front-to-back trading systems: eg Calypso, Murex or in-house systems.
• Trade lifecycle knowledge: pricing, booking, trade capture, risk.
• Excellent stakeholder management: confident interfacing with traders, quants, dev and support

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take ownership of project and delivery tracking, working closely with quants and trading.
• Run Jira-based workflows (e.g Kanban), organize epics, prioritize work and maintain delivery visibility.
• Follow up on production and support issues-triage, escalate and drive toward a permanent resolution.
• Filter, structure, an clarify trader or stakeholder request before they hit the Engineering teams backlog.
• Coordinate across teams (quant, desk, dev, infra, support) to streamline delivery and improve efficiency.
• Support integration of models and tools across risk and pricing infrastructure.
• Manage platform migrations of legacy pricing and risk analytics.

Please send your CV for the attention of ALISON CALDER