Portfolio Manager/Trader - Multi Asset Proprietary Trading Desk

Role for a Portfolio Manager for a multi asset proprietary trading desk in Mumbai.

The client is looking to hire Portfolio Managers to be part of their quantitative trading team; to expand their trading book with a diversified set of strategies.

They are open to portfolio of medium to low frequency alpha strategies; which uses quantitative, fundamental, relative value and/or technical approaches. The role involves working along with other Portfolio Managers and managing researchers to grow the business in International markets

Key responsibilities:

- Create, manage and trade a portfolio of upwards of multi million dollars using a portfolio of systematic strategies (of any asset classes and geographies)

- Be responsible for revenue generation of his/her portfolio

- End to end ownership of all strategy creation, portfolio allocation and trading activities

- Manage researchers under him who will assist in developing new trading strategies

- Taking active decisions in changing portfolio's orientation and risk profile based on market environment

- Continue to develop consistently profitable strategies and work towards improving the existing one

Desired Skills and Experience:

- 4-10 years of relevant work experience as a trader, portfolio manager or quant researcher

- Minimum 3 years of hands on experience as a portfolio manager

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in statistics, finance, engineering, mathematics, physics, computational finance from tier-1 institute

- Should have excellent understanding of risk management and asset allocation techniques

- In depth understanding and working knowledge of various quantitative and statistical techniques, including but not limited to multivariate linear, non-linear and logistic regression, machine learning and genetic algorithm methodologies etc

- Hand on experience of coding in Matlab, R, Python, C++ or Java preferred

- Good grasp of market dynamics of various asset classes and how they change over time

- Team player and should have the ability to think out of box

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

To apply or know more about the role, please email or call on 022 61623172