In the current marketplace, companies look for individuals who possess the following four attributes in their skill-set:

• A thorough understanding of the financial markets along with complex financial structures, trading strategies and derivatives;
• Sophisticated financial mathematical modeling skills along with the prerequisite knowledge of advanced probability, statistics, stochastic processes and time series analysis; 
• Knowledge of financial Big Data modeling in the rapidly growing field of financial services analytics, which involves creating data-driven decision-making analytic tools for the financial services industry;
• Expertise in programming languages such as C++, C#, Python, Java and other computational skills related to databases, parallel computing, big data and data visualization.