Join Nykredit Markets as a Desk Quant (Analyst/Associate)
Would you like to help develop financial models, applications, and quantitative solutions that support our trading of financial instruments in Nykredit Markets? Are you motivated by combining financial insight, technology, and quantitative analysis in a high-performing environment with strong expertise, significant responsibility, and visible impact? Then this could be the opportunity for you.
A key part of Nykredit Markets’ new strategy is a comprehensive upgrade of our quant platform and models. In Quantitative Solutions, we are responsible for this initiative and are currently developing Dragonfly – a modern, scalable, and highly optimized quant platform used for market making, pricing, and risk management of financial instruments across asset classes.
We are therefore looking for a Desk Quant who wants to work close to the business and contribute to developing and maintaining solutions used daily by traders, sales professionals, and other specialists in Nykredit Markets.
Your primary responsibilities
- Trading support: Work closely with our trading desks and contribute to daily market activities where Dragonfly and other quant solutions are used.
- Financial modeling and quantitative analysis: Configure, analyze, and apply our models for pricing and risk management of financial products.
- Development of analytics applications: Design, develop, and maintain Dragonfly applications and tools for the business.
- Model setup and risk calculations: Contribute to the setup, maintenance, and further development of models and risk calculations in both Dragonfly and other trading systems.
- Monitoring and optimizing production flows: Ensure robust processes, high data quality, and stable operation of our models and quant platform.
- Markets-focused use of AI: Help identify and implement AI-driven solutions where they create business value. Are you the one we are looking for?
We welcome applications from recent graduates, final-year Master’s students, and candidates with up to three years of relevant work experience. Depending on your qualifications and experience, the role will be at Analyst or Associate level.
We expect that you
- hold a relevant university degree in finance, economics, natural sciences, or engineering, with strong academic results,
- have strong analytical skills and are motivated by solving complex financial challenges,
- have a solid understanding of quantitative modeling and financial theory,
- have programming experience in Python and strong Excel skills,
- have an interest in, and preferably experience with, AI or machine learning,
- thrive in a fast-paced environment with a strong performance focus and multiple parallel tasks,
- have an interest in financial markets and products. Your new teamYou will join the QS Pricing & Structuring team, one of three teams in Quantitative Solutions. We are a department with a high level of professional expertise, where collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous development are central to our day-to-day work. The department consists of desk quants, quant developers, and financial engineers. Together, we ensure that Nykredit Markets has the right models, applications, and analytical decision support to remain at the forefront of the market.
About Nykredit MarketsNykredit Markets is part of the Nykredit Group, one of Denmark’s largest financial institutions. Nykredit Markets offers a broad range of financial services and products within capital markets, including trading in bonds, credit, FX, and equities. We serve both institutional and private investors with advisory services and tailored investment solutions.
Want to know more?
You are welcome to contact me, David Sloth Pedersen, Head of Quantitative Solutions, at quant@nykredit.dk if you have any questions about the position.
If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact our recruitment team at nytjob@nykredit.dk.
We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and review applications as we receive them. We look forward to receiving your application and CV.
Vi er ikke helt som de andre
Nykredit-koncernen er nemlig ejet af en forening af vores kunder, Forenet Kredit. Det giver os bl.a. nogle særlige muligheder for at dele vores fremgang med vores kunder, fx gennem konkrete fordele, der gør det billigere at være kunde hos os.
Det mærker man også i de lokalområder, vi er til stede i – fx når alle vores rådgivere i Nykredit og Spar Nord hvert år får et beløb til rådighed til at gøre en forskel for en lokal forening eller klub. Det kalder vi Det lokale løfte.
Som kollega mærker du også vores foreningsejerskab. Vi giver fx et medarbejderløfte, hvor vi lover udvikling og muligheder til dig, der vil og kan. Du vil derfor opleve, at din leder er ambitiøs – ikke mindst på dine vegne – og er trænet i at støtte din udvikling og guide dig videre, når du er klar til næste skridt i din karriere. Selvfølgelig i Nykredit-koncernen.
På tværs af Nykredit og Spar Nord får du cirka 5.500 nye kolleger, der sammen skaber vores foreningsejede arbejdsplads. Det gør vi med en kultur, der er præget af holdånd, ligeværd og handlekraft. Og med målet om at give vores kunder markedets bedste oplevelser.
Dét er bare nogle af fordelene ved at være en del af vores foreningsejede arbejdsplads.
Nykredit-koncernen omfatter bl.a. følgende brands Nykredit, Spar Nord, Totalkredit, Nybolig og Sparinvest.
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