Strategy Quant Trader

Background:

A reputed Canada-headquartered financial services company (with commercial offices around the world) has set up its research & product development division in India. All product research, development, trading and maintenance will be executed from its India office.

Location: Gurgaon, India

Position Type: Full Time

Position Overview:

- The successful candidate will primarily be responsible for trading and management of low and high frequency strategies, both intraday and end of day.

- S/he will also be responsible for improving strategies from a trade execution perspective.

- The job will also include continuous monitoring, trading and execution of strategies and s/he will also be expected to work in UK, US, or Singapore shifts.

Key Responsibilities:

- Trade execution and monitoring of low and high frequency strategies

- Improving trade execution methodology and strategy concepts

- Managing execution of strategies of various asset classes (FX, commodity, equity,rates), frequency (intraday,weekly, monthly, quarterly), and types (technical, statistical, fundamental)

- Closely analyzing and recommending improvements of the existing strategy indices and rule-based trading strategies

- Working closely with members of product development team in development of new indices and rule-based trading strategies

Desired Experience & Skills:

- Minimum of 4 year of relevant work experience in trading and strategy execution

- Master's degree in statistics, finance, engineering, mathematics, physics, computational finance

- Relevant trading experience of minimum 2 years

- Willing to work in UK , US, or Singapore shifts

- Good knowledge of programming in C #, C++, Java, R, Matlab, Python

- Programming packages: Visual Studio, MSSQL Server; Scripting languages: Multicharts, Metatrader, Ninjatrader,Tradestation

- Good knowledge of advanced MS Excel modeling; knowledge of VBA preferred

- Trade execution experience trough broker terminals and I-banks

- Knowledge of Bloomberg (data provider)

- Quantitative aptitude, attention to detail, good communication, written and presentation skills