Quantitative Trader (Intern) - 12 months

Job purpose:

• To research, test and implement quantitative pricing and trading strategies for an electronic FX market making business
• To provide daily support to various business stakeholders (eg traders, quants, sales) and help resolve any system issues as they arise
• To help grow the profitability of the business through the quantitative analysis of proprietary data

Key activities:

• Provide adequate support to the trading team in dealing with technical issues as they arise
• Monitoring of system health and prices generated by the trading platform
• Optimizing platform parameters and settings
• Research, prototype and back test new pricing and hedging strategies
• Coordinate with IT to bring new systematic trading strategies to production
• Assist in key system developments – pricing, hedging & position management & client tiering
• Identify client patterns and translate into strategic proposals to maximize the success of the global franchise

Formal education:

• Graduate degree in a technical field (ie Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, etc)
• Recent graduates with no more than 1 year of professional work experience (excluding internships)

Specialist knowledge (work experience, further qualification):

• Comfortable working with statistical analysis and back testing languages (eg. R, Matlab, Python), some experience with q/kdb+ and Java preferred