Trading Assistant Quant Fund

Trading Assistant Quant Fund
100,000 Plus Bonus5 days in the office – some room for negotiation

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Trading Assistant to join our high profile client.

Our client is a $5 billion strong systematic quant commodity trading fund with excellent recent performance. The fund is completely quant based so if development and the latest tech and making very serious bonuses are of interest this is the right client. The environment is that of Facebook or Google, relaxed open with time to think and make the right decisions.

The atmosphere is calm and relaxed with an open dress code. This is a role for techies, those who are motivated by the sharp end of technology and the possibility of making serious money doing something you are passionate about.

Responsibilities:
• Monitoring the live trading dashboard and alerting senior staff to any errors or other issues.
• Running end-of-day post-trade procedures.
• Running daily order generation procedures in parallel trading environments.
• Liaison both internally (IT, software development and operations) and externally (brokers, fund administrators) to assist in maintaining trading operations.
• Ad hoc project assignments.
• Initiating algorithms to execute the signals provided by the trading system

Trade Assistants MUST have:
• An MSc/BSc in computing or mathematics
• Excellent IT skills including MS Excel.
• NFA Series 3 qualification.
• Inquisitive and analytical mindset.
• Attention to detail and diligence.
• Experience in trading or financial markets
• Good basic financial products knowledge, Hull.

This role is for candidates who have a deep understanding of code not just the ability to read the language, expectations are high so if you are not a serious developer, don’t waste your time.

My client is based in the City of London