Quant jobs / CME Group
Senior Pricing Analyst, Derivatives Pricing, Incentives and Analytics
A quantitative analyst role on an exchange's fee and incentive strategy team, using market and client activity data to judge pricing actions and market-maker programmes. It sits in the firm's pricing group and supports growth in its derivatives markets.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Analyse client and market activity to diagnose liquidity or participation problems
- Evaluate and size incentive and market-making programmes
- Track programme performance and market health metrics
- Build analytical tools and dashboards for revenue and market health
- Summarise competitor and regulatory developments for business leaders
What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's or higher in economics, maths, finance, statistics or similar
- 3-5 years in pricing, financial analysis, derivatives, trading or market analysis
- Advanced quantitative and analytical ability
- Attention to detail on large datasets
- Written and verbal communication
- Cross-functional working
Preferred
- Python or R for large datasets
- SQL
- Education
- Bachelor's or higher in economics, maths, finance, statistics or a related quantitative field
- Experience
- 3-5 years in pricing, financial analysis, derivatives, trading or competitive analysis
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- futures, multi-asset
How to prepare
- Study exchange market structure, maker-taker fees and market-making incentive schemes
- Analyse public futures volume and open interest data in Python
- Build a small model of how a fee change could affect volume and revenue
- Learn SQL for large datasets
What to study
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Python and Data Primer
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with CME Group and doesn’t handle applications.