Job Description "> The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate individuals who work together to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our team finds purpose and excels in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment. We are seeking a visionary, innovative, and results-driven Quantitative Finance Specialist. As a Quantitative Finance Specialist, you will lead the development and implementation of frameworks, methodologies, advanced financial analytics, tools, and solutions to support our diverse business lines and enhance our Treasury activities. Your role will focus on quantitative development, ensuring state-of-the-art methodologies and practices are applied to achieve impactful results for internal and external stakeholders. You will work in our Treasury Middle Office and Banking Group (TMB) within our Treasury Division of the Finance Department. This team is responsible for performing pricing, theoretical pricing, and valuation of our assets, liabilities, and derivatives, advising on strategies to manage liquidity, and leading the quantitative solutions, sandboxes, and deployment platforms to support our advisory business line. Key Responsibilities: - Lead TMB's asset management and financial quantitative solutions practice, including R&D; and the corresponding sandboxes and deployment platforms. - Manage the development of quantitative financial solutions, analytics, and reports needed in support of our various business lines for internal clients, including portfolio analytics for fixed income asset management, hedging tools (e.g., Commodities), and bond issuance. Coordinate quantitative partnerships. - Lead the development of quantitative financial analytics and tools needed to support the delivery of our capacity-building and advisory business line provided to member countries. - Support the Official Institutions Asset Management and Advisory Program (CAsA), including delivering and developing missions, fellowships, and other relevant deliverables. - Lead, participate in, or support the development of Strategic Asset Allocation and Asset Liability Management exercises for us and external clients. - Work alongside multidisciplinary working groups (including other Finance areas, Risk, and IT) to continuously enhance our Treasury activities. - Perform other daily TMB tasks as needed. Required Skills and Qualifications • Education: Master's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or related disciplines. • Experience: At least 10 years or more of work experience at a central bank, sovereign wealth fund, guarantee deposit fund, or relevant multilateral or public financial institution in the design and execution of strategic asset allocation, asset and liabilities management, portfolio management, as well as the modeling of financial products, portfolio performance, and performance attribution, risk management, fixed income, derivatives, or equities. • Additional skills: Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills with an academic background in engineering, math, or finance. Solid knowledge of fixed income and derivatives valuation principles and techniques. Familiarity with Bloomberg and/or Refinitiv. Highly skilled and experienced in quantitative finance programming in MATLAB and/or Python is a must. Certifications: Financial Risk Manager (FRM) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) is a plus. • Languages: Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French, or Portuguese) is required. Benefits • Competitive compensation package, including an annual base salary expressed on a net-of-tax basis. • Leaves and vacations: 24 days of paid time off + 8 personal days + sick leave + gender-neutral parental leave. • Health Insurance: We provide employees and eligible dependents with a robust medical benefits program that covers medical, dental, vision, preventive care, and prescription drugs. • Pension plan: Defined benefit pension plan that provides financial security and support employees in planning for their future. • Fully remote modality. • Health and well-being: Access to our Health Services Center that provides preventive care and health education for employees. • Development support: We offer tools to boost your professional profile, such as mentoring, 1:1 professional counseling, training, and learning opportunities, language classes, mobility options, among others. • Allowance: One-time non-pensionable allowance to support the purchase of equipment, office set-up, and computer maintenance. Our Culture At our organization, we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work while finding their purpose. Our people consistently strive for excellence, and we recognize and celebrate the impact of their contributions. In our efforts to drive innovation, we intentionally include all voices, cultivate a sense of belonging, and champion fairness. We welcome individuals from underrepresented groups to join us and share their unique perspectives. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job interview process.