eFX Trader

Leading European Corporate & Investment Bank

Description

Exciting opportunity for a VP eFX Trader with a European Corporate & Investment Bank. London

Main Purpose of this role

• To research, test and implement quantitative pricing and trading strategies for an electronic FX market making business
• To provide daily support to various business stakeholders (eg traders, quants, sales) and help resolve any system issues as they arise
• To help grow the profitability of the business through the quantitative analysis of proprietary data
• Support new business development with eFX clients
• Understanding FX product areas and how these markets operate, FICC products and local treatment in G10 and LM currencies.
• Knowledge of how FX Market Makers provide liquidity and techniques used for market making.
• Assist in key system developments and implementation of new strategies in the following areas: pricing, hedging & position management & client tiering
• Coordinate with IT to bring new systematic trading strategies to production
• Provide adequate support to the trading team in dealing with technical issues as they arise
• Monitoring of system health and prices generated by the trading platform

Profile

Exciting opportunity for a VP eFX Trader with a European Corporate & Investment Bank. London

The candidate:

• University degree ideally to post graduate level in a numerate discipline
• Experience of analysis techniques applying programming languages to solve problems using evidence from data.
• Experience with q/kdb+ and Java highly desirable.
• Ability to come up with hypotheses to improve business, to test and implement improvements, and to measure success of the improvement.

Job Offer

The package will be competitive