Career Opportunities

Gifford Fong Associates' employees are the key to our company's forty plus years of success. We are dedicated to establishing a diversified culture in which employees can develop their full potential and contribute to the company's overall success in developing cutting edge investment technologies from multi-disciplinary scientific community and high levels of experience of our employees. Gifford Fong Associates is seeking highly motivated, energetic staff members who want to make a difference working with an experienced management team while displaying a strong work ethic, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Financial Engineer

• Develop system models for fixed-income and derivatives

• Design, develop system package for risk management support and financial analysis

• Develop interactive financial analysis modeling systems to solve problems and process data

• Support a variety of engineering tasks related to company’s software product development work and also assist users having problems with use of system software.

• Estimate probability distributions, volatilities and correlations

• Build strategy forecasting models and enhance optimization and asset allocation models on portfolio management

• Analyze equity, debt, and commodities financial market data and history using time series analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation, multivariate statistics, and other quantitative techniques

• Review productivity reports and problem records to evaluate performance of software.

Responsibilities

Specific Skills

• Experience in fixed-income structured products, and exotic derivatives valuation (a must)

• Good analytical skills and persistence with analytical and problem solving

• Must possess excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to work independently and well as part of the team, multitask and prioritize work

• Demonstrated initiative, enthusiasm to learn, excel and be a part of a dynamic team

• Experience in using financial technology, application of quantitative methods, or database administration

• Must have solid Communication and Writing Skills

• Experience in working with large/complex data sets

• Involvement in implementing capital structure management and strategies

• Strong working knowledge with statistics, MS Office, and SQL Server

• HTML, ASP and Website design experience is a plus

Education

Master's Degree in Financial Engineering, Graduate degree with an emphasis in Finance, Economics, Accounting