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About The Team
* Within Global Markets, Global Credit is responsible for the primary (new issuance) and secondary trading of corporate (fins and non-fins) debt and related instruments such as CDS, indices, options and structured products. It comprises different roles such as syndicate, debt capital markets, trading, sales, structuring and Credit360 which includes desk analysts and desk strategists.
The Credit360 team is part of Global Credit and is responsible for the in-depth fundamental credit analysis of corporates and sectors, monitoring of trading risk, generation of trade ideas, marketing of trade ideas and views on the market to institutional investors via regular write-ups
Key Role Responsibilities
* Work with the team located in Lisbon and London in its effort to build a more quantitative infrastructure to support the analysis of sectors/companies/the credit market:
* Maintain, enhance, and develop market data infrastructure to support trade idea generation (e.g., analysis of time series and static data on a variety of products – cash bonds, CDS, indices and CDS indices)
* Develop tools to support and enhance the trade idea generation process
* Automate tools, especially legacy ones (e.g. based on spreadsheets) to free-up workload and workflow from credit strategists
* Work with quants to ensure data maintenance, reliability and accessibility by making sure all processes are automated and batched appropriately
* Develop new tools and approach to credit analysis making use of innovative techniques (Machine Learning, web scrapping, sentiment analysis, news flows analysis, document analysis, etc)
* Build back testing infrastructure with the intent to test a variety on trading signals
* Drive projects that bring technological innovation to traditional credit research
* Help with presentations and publications, help with clients, trading and sales requests
Profile And Skills To Success
* Master degree/PhD in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or Equivalent
* Very good knowledge of coding in Python, VBA, BQL, SQL
* Knowledge on data analysis/time series analysis (regression, machine Learning, etc)
* Analytical quantitative and problem-solving skills
* Knowledge of finance
* Interest in data analysis / financial analysis
* Ability to learn quickly, reliability and capacity to deliver
* Attention to detail, rigor and ability to raise problems immediately to the broader team when necessary
* Good written and oral communication skills in english
About Global Markets
* Global Markets, the capital markets division of BNP Paribas' Corporate & Institutional Banking, is a powerhouse delivering top-tier solutions across asset classes. Our Portugal Platform (Porto and Lisbon) stands as a major European HUB and a unique player in the country, boasting a wide range of Front Office roles and services – Trading, Sales, Research, Structuring, Quants & Engineering, Business Dev and Support, Marketing & Client Support, Risk Management, Data Analytics and Machine Learning. With rapid growth and ambitions to make a global impact, we offer numerous short and long-term opportunities.
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