Front Office FX Quant

About this role:

Our Corporate & Investment Banking Front Office Quantitative Model Development Team is working on a strategic buildout initiative. This strategic initiative will enhance our ability to partner and deliver excellent quality and service to our trading and sales partners as our platform continues to grow. 

Wells Fargo is seeking candidates for the role of Senior Lead Securities Quantitative Analytics Specialist, which is a Vice President level role within the Corporate & Investment Banking organization (CIB). The successful candidate will be part of a team responsible for developing and implementing quantitative models and tools for Foreign Exchange (“FX”) and Non-USD Rates risk management, trading, and pricing with focus on areas like forecasting, optimization, and risk mitigation. This is part of a strategic initiative to build new models that will be integrated into a holistic markets quantitative risk and trading platform.  Specific work will be spearheaded by the Front Office FX and Non-USD Rates Quant group but will be integrated into a cross asset-class platform within CIB.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Design, development, and implementation of quantitative models for FX and Non-USD Rates risk management, trading strategies, and pricing of FX and Non-USD Rates products.
• Participate in the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and delivery of derivative pricing and trading models for FX and Rates products, providing expertise in relevant software design, implementation, and performance optimization.
• Effectively communicate and partner with Business Stakeholders, other Quant Teams, Technology, Risk, and Project Management
• Deliver high-quality software and documentation
• Work closely with the trading desk on short-term projects and support of existing models, as well as working within the Quant team on wider projects for the business

In this role, you will:

• Proactively participate in complex software design & development activities within an Agile environment
• Contribute to large-scale project planning, balancing short and long-term objectives
• Use quantitative and advanced technologies to solve complex business problems
• Meet deliverables while adhering to policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, trading desks, and project managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Effectively communicate with and build consensus with all project stakeholders
• Serve as a mentor for less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Securities Quantitative Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on coding experience, C++ and Java are most relevant, with an emphasis on numerical optimization

• 4+ year experience working as a front office desk Quant for FX derivatives, ideally with exposure to exotics Rates derivatives and FX-IR hybrids.
• Deep knowledge of FX markets and conventions, hedging practices, and calibration issues. Knowledge of Rates markets is a plus.
• Solid knowledge of financial mathematics, particularly, stochastic calculus, arbitrage, hedging, PDE, Monte-Carlo and other numerical methods
• Team player, comfortable on a trading floor, with strong, clear and concise written and oral communication skills
• Masters or PhD in quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics or computer science

Other Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in successfully collaborating with others in a change driven environment.
• Curious to keep up with market practices and recent developments on the pricing and regulatory fronts.
• Good intuitions on the models and the model results.
• Strong interest in financial markets and willingness to provide practical solutions for a trading desk.

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00

Posting End Date:

13 Jun 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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