At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our Credit Trading Quant team to develop innovative e-trading solutions and analytics.
- Company: Dynamic financial firm focused on cutting-edge technology and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities to work across multiple teams and projects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in finance by applying your analytical skills to shape the future of trading.
- Qualifications: Strong quantitative analysis skills and experience in software development.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Job Summary We are looking for a quantitative analyst to join our Credit Trading Quant team, which works in the front office, delivering technological solutions for Credit Trading into production.
The team owns the analytics and e-trading roadmap for credit trading in partnership with desk heads, with accountability for prioritisation, delivery, and realised business impact.
We develop the foundational platform and analytics that enable performant e-trading for credit flow.
We research systematic trading ideas that predict the future of financial markets, applying scientific techniques to find patterns in large, noisy and rapidly changing real‑world data sets.
We develop and deploy those ideas into production to positively impact targeted e‑trading metrics.
The team also provides analytics and tooling to the whole of Credit Trading.
Our tools help drive efficiency, increase revenue and make processes more robust.
They can be delivered as dashboarding, web apps, scheduled jobs, APIs and more.
Responsibilities Design and develop capabilities across all components of our e‑Trading platform including fair value engines, portfolio and risk management engines, client segmentation and RFQ response.
Ensure each component delivered for e‑Trading also provides value across Credit Flow.
Deploy analytical techniques as appropriate ranging from statistical analysis to modern machine learning.
Initiate and develop the analytics and tooling that serves the whole of Credit Trading.
Take ownership of their projects from inception to final delivery.
This will require effective engagement and coordination with many teams including Trading, KDB, QA, Dev Ops, PSS, and the second line.
Key Responsibilities Strategy Improve Credit Flow trading metrics such as response rates, hit‑rates, market share and Pn L through the expansion and improvement of our e‑Trading platform.
Improve Credit Trading performance through the delivery of analytics, tools, dashboards and applications that enable enhanced efficiency, revenue and Ro RWA.
Business Partner with front office traders to understand desk requirements and translate them into flexible, production‑ready analytical products with rapid turnaround on new modules and configurations.
Support business growth by ensuring components of the e‑Trading platform are made available to line traders to improve metrics across all of Credit Flow.
Processes Participate in coordination of cross‑functional delivery involving trading, KDB, QA, Dev Ops, ION, and PSS teams to manage rapid refactorings and new feature extensions.
Target best practice in code quality, environment management, and cross‑team integration.
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