At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage portfolio risk and oversee automated trade execution while leading a team of researchers.
- Company: Cubist Systematic Strategies, an innovative affiliate of Point72.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, dynamic work environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Engage in groundbreaking research and expand into new markets.
- Why this job: Join a cutting-edge firm and shape the future of quantitative finance.
- Qualifications: Advanced degree and 10+ years in quantitative model development required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 120000 £ per year.
ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange.
The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
- ROLE
- Dynamically managing portfolio risk by evaluating historical and real-time strategy performance.
- Overseeing automated trade execution and monitoring transaction costs.
- Supervising a small team of researchers and developers on a daily basis.
- Designing, researching, and managing sophisticated investment strategies by creating and engineering advance quantitative financial computer modeling systems to aid in analysis and research.
- Performing research to acquire historical and production data sources needed to build investment models.
- Designing and developing quantitative mathematical algorithms to link the diverse data sets from various providers.
- Engineering investment models that will make the buy and sell recommendations for the portfolios using advanced quantitative mathematic statistics and investment theory to design and program strategies that explicitly forecast risk, return, and trading costs.
- Using quantitative models to value securities.
- Conducting ongoing, cutting-edge quantitative research and analysis to enhance existing strategies and to expand into new markets.
- Developing aspects of successful statistical models, focusing on forecasting and optimization.
- Expanding trading universe and volume and expanding to other exchanges and products.
REQUIREMENTS
- Advance degree (Masters or Ph. D.) in a computational or analytical field.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience developing, researching or implementing quantitative models for equities, futures and/or FX.
- Hands on experience with all aspects of the research process, including methodology section, data collection and analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
- Innovative, intellectually driven, with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.
Cubist Portfolio Manager in London employer: Point72
Point72 is an exceptional employer that prioritises the well-being and professional growth of its employees in the heart of London. With comprehensive benefits including private medical insurance, generous family leave, and wellness programmes, we foster a supportive work culture that encourages career development within a dynamic global investment firm. Join us to be part of a team that values compliance excellence and offers unique opportunities for advancement.
