Supporting a Portfolio Manager, the??Desk Analyst will directly contribute to??risk-taking activities including trade idea generation, monitoring markets and building constructive tools &??models.

• Track market developments and economic activity to manage risk and identify investment opportunities
• Enhance the execution process, constantly improving efficiency
• Build quantitative/statistical models and tools
• Work alongside the quant research team to provide analytics and ad-hoc data driven projects to assist the Portfolio Manager

Skills & experience required:

• Educated at a top tier university (ideally to MSc level) in a quantitative driven subject
• Prior work experience of 1-5 years in a closely related field such as trading, market-making, strategy or as a junior/assistant PM
• Fixed Income / Rates??product knowledge is essential.??
• Extensive experience with an advanced programming language,??Python being highly desirable