This is the opportunity to join a small team and work alongside highly profitable Portfolio Managers and with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Team members combine strong technical skills and a passion for problem solving with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behaviour. Researchers work on the full lifecycles of strategy development, including analysis, testing, prototyping, back-testing, and performance monitoring.

Role:

• Research and implement various trading strategies
• Identify new trading opportunities by using statistical methods and analysing large data sets
• Ensure that all data and related processes are prepared and check over strategies that have been implemented as well as tracking their behaviour
• Work closely with other researchers to develop and continuously improve upon mathematical models, and help translate algorithms into code

Ideal Candidate

• Experience of researching, or implementing quantitative models for equities, futures, and/or FX,
• Masters or PhD in Maths, Stats, Physics, Computer Science, or other quantitative discipline
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing large data sets
• Programming in any of the following: C++, Java, C#, MATLAB, R, Python, or Perl
• Detail-oriented