Job Description
- Electronic FX market making, spot FX, Quant, q/kdb+ and Java
- European Corporate & Investment Bank. London
About Our Client
Leading European Corporate & Investment Bank
Job Description
Exciting opportunity for an eFX Quantitative Analyst / Trader - VP / Director with a European Corporate & Investment Bank. London
Job purpose:
- To apply statistical methods to extract informational value from trade flow in order to optimize the pricing and liquidity to a diverse set of FX end users
- To research, test and implement quantitative price discovery and trading strategies for an electronic FX market making business
- To help grow the profitability of the business and client satisfaction through the quantitative analysis of proprietary data
- To risk manage the trading flow via the trading algorithms
Key Activities:
- Research new methods for systematically optimizing delivery of pricing and liquidity to clients
- Research new market making pricing strategies
- Research new risk management algorithms designed to efficiently and profitably control inventory levels generated from client flow
- Use market data from various trading venues as well as proprietary information to design and backtest systematic trading signals
- Coordinate with IT to bring new systematic trading strategies to production Stay up to date with the latest research on algorithmic trading
- Responsible for managing the global trading books, ensuring compliance with risk profiles and risk limits
- Identify client patterns and translate into strategic proposals to maximize the success of the global franchise
- Respond to sales/client queries in a timely and transparent fashion
The Successful Applicant
Exciting opportunity for an eFX Quantitative Analyst / Trader - VP / Director with a European Corporate & Investment Bank. London
Specialist knowledge (work experience, futher qualification):
- Experience in applying quantitative techniques to optimise an electronic market making business
- Strong background in statistics
- Knowledge and experience with FX markets
- Comfortable working with numerical computing languages (eg. R, Matlab, Python), some
- experience with q/kdb+ and Java preferred
Formal education:
- Post graduate degree in a technical field
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