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Company: Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Title: Quantitative Researcher - Commodity Risk
Category: Full time
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Experience: Mid-Senior leve
Application: Link to apply
About the job
The commodity business unit is one of the newest and fastest growing profit centers at BAM, rapidly onboarding new markets and staff around the globe with ambitions to add physical trading capabilities. This role will be part of a highly collaborative and impactful team helping to grow our Commodities business.
We are looking for an outstanding Quantitative Researcher to join our Commodities Risk Management team reporting to the Head of Commodity Risk Analytics.
Responsibilities include:
• Formulate and implement models for onboarding new commodity products and derivatives, such as methodologies for constructing volatility surfaces and modeling physical assets.
• Be responsible for quality of risk metrics, such as vol calculation methodology.
• Develop methodologies and procedures to conduct historical and hypothetical stress testing, as well as analysis of the results using standardized statistical metrics.
• Work with Risk Management and Risk Tech to configure and calibrate risk systems, particularly for new products and physical assets.
• Apply quantitative methods to solve risk topics, such as estimating market liquidity and liquidation costs.
• Contribute to overall risk management team at BAM in risk analytics, processes, and reporting. This may involve ad-hoc risk analysis for portfolios that are not commodities-focused or investigation of impact of a commodities-focused portfolio to the overall risk of the firm.
• Contribute to Global Risk Committee’s understanding of risk drivers and considerations in related markets.
• Improve and extend existing risk reporting tools, including risk analysis, P&L attribution, and portfolio construction, with focus on both regular periodic reporting and ad-hoc requests.
Requirements
• At least 5+ years of experience, with 10+ years preferred, as a commodities quant, strategist, or quantitative risk officer, at a physical energy trading firm.
• Strong academic background (masters/doctorate) in quantitative fields such as math, physics, engineering, statistics, economics, or finance.
• Skilled in valuing and modeling physical commodity assets and structured transactions, such as gas or oil storage and pipeline transport, power tolls, transmission, etc.
• Experience with as many of the following commodities as possible: electricity, congestion markets, natural gas, crude oil, oil products, energy assets, agricultural commodities, structured transactions, shipping.
• Experience with seasonality in commodities risk models.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL. Must be familiar with numeric libraries such as pandas, numpy, etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Enjoy working in a collaborative environment and able to communicate complex ideas clearly
Nice to have
• Advanced Python knowledge including management of virtual environments, release process, or multi-processing
• Experience developing Plotly Dash dashboards and other data visualization tools
• Experience working at a hedge fund or other asset management firms with exposure to systematic futures strategies or portfolio construction
• Experience with factor analysis, PCA, decomposition models for P&L and risk, machine learning
• Experience in working with Beacon risk system
With respect to NY-based applicants, the starting base pay range for this role is between $150000 and $225000 annually. The actual base pay is dependent upon several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant experience, business needs and market demands. This role may also be eligible for bonus compensation and employee benefits.