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