Quantitative Strategist

Job Title Quantitative Strategist

Location London

Corporate Title Associate

Group Strategic Analytics is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

You will be joining the Debt Strats group, which delivers analytics and applications that solve quantitative problems for businesses across Deutsche Bank Investment Bank.

The design, specification and implementation are the responsibilities of Strats in close partnership with Trading, Sales, Middle Office and Technology groups.

The Equity Strats team is focused on Equity Derivatives trading and regulatory problems. Solutions to these are implemented within the strategic cross-asset platform.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days

• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Extending the pricing and quoting platform to handle equity derivatives and equity cross-asset products

• Improving the automation of the risk and profit & loss (P&L) processes

• Supporting to improve tooling and automation of market data marking

• Produce Relative value and scenario analysis for Equity and Cross-Asset products.

• Contribute to the optimisation effort to improve the scalability of the cross-asset platform especially for the equity businesses

Your skills and experience

• In-depth knowledge of Python or C++ programming language

• Educated to Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent qualification/relevant work experience, in an engineering or scientific subject.

• Experience of the equity business or equity derivatives space – knowledge of products, models and risk measures is highly advantageous

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to effectively partner together and collaborate with colleagues and diverse stakeholders

• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we’ll support you

• Coaching and support from experts in your team

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Proud Employer Trailblazer Status from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge at adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss. For more information about our recruitment process and available adjustments, please visit our Hiring Experience page.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.