European Cash Equity Trader – Market Making and Liquidity Taking recruitment

The role will involve:

• Managing risk of the EMEA equity group.

• Manage market making strategies and algorithms

• Manage short term arbitrage strategies and algorithms.

• Work with Quant and Programmers in the development of new ideas / strategies, algorithms for trading within the dark pool and for optimal execution of order flow.  

•       Manage those strategies and systems once they are developed.

• Work with other departments in the firm including: business and retail equity broker-dealer desks, asset management, prop trading.

• Help the different departments to optimise their execution via the crossing engine when making EU cash equity trades. You will need to have good stakeholder skills.

Required skills

• Can do attitude.

• People person

• Significant experience trading cash equities within EMEA.

• Knowledge of dark pools, electronic trading, electronic market making, and short term prop.

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to manage projects, stakeholders.

• Ability to manage risk at a portfolio level.

• Knowledge of portfolio theory, portfolio optimisation.

To apply please get in touch with James Kennedy

J.kennedy@njfsearch.com