Snr Quant Analyst, eFX & Commodities Market Making Strategies (Director), Singapore/Sydney/HK

Excellent opportunity to join this Global Investment Bank’s high performing, Quant Strategy team to work on automated market-making strategies for their eFX & Commodities electronic trading business. This is a front-office revenue-generation role where you will work with their global franchise. 

Their respected global Quant Strategy team work on data, models, & algorithms with applications across derivative valuation and risk, automated trading, and data-driven decision-making. (Please indicate your preferred location)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work directly for the Head of the Business to research and create new models to monetize flow and automate market-making, (including price forecasting, skewing, bid/ask generation, and client segmentation), and write the code that implements them
• Analyse and apply novel statistical and machine learning methods 
• Identify where quantitative techniques can be used to develop new business opportunities
• Build close working partnerships with sales, trading and other stakeholders

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• 6 to 12 years in a related role, ideally at either a Hedge Fund or at a Bank with a large Flow, preferably for FX &/or Commodities (Metals, Ags, Gas, Power, Carbon). Warrants would be of interest too.
• Able to understand & apply good research, demonstrated by outstanding academic achievements
• PhD in quantitative discipline (physics, maths, engineering etc.)
• Programming skills in Python & C++, and Data Science tools