Manager - Cash Equities Quant - Portfolio Trading Strategies

Role Purpose:

- Analyse alpha profile of client order flow

- Backtest unwind strategies

Role Context:

Provide support functions for trading desk including:

- Develop and maintain a framework for backtesting trading strategies

- Assist IT to deploy the framework

- Develop novel un-winding strategies

- Work with the KDB team for data requirements

- Development of visualization tools (datawatch) relevant to the needs of the desk/team

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications:

1. Graduate / post-grad qualification from a top tier university in applied mathematics or statistics or engineering

2. Experience in python, Java, C++ or other programming languages

3. Experience with databases - KDB, MongoDB

4 .4 years experience working with financial data or tick data

5. Spreadsheet development experience (Excel and VBA)