Front Office Trading System Analyst with Scripting/UNIX skills – Internal Quant-Driven Hedge Fund within Tier One Investment Bank recruitment
Front Office Trading System Analyst with Scripting/UNIX skills – Fantastic opportunity within Internal Quant-Driven Hedge Fund, Tier One Investment Bank
Introduction: Montash Associates have been engaged by a leading Bulge-Bracket Investment Bank, to assist in the acquisition of a technologist who will join a highly profitable, yet “semi-secret” team within one of the world’s best known banks.
The Organisation: A truly global brand; a tier one investment bank renowned for employing both the best graduates from top institutions, and the strongest experienced professionals, from traders to technologists
The Team: An internal Quant-Driven Hedge Fund, working with a variety of tradable products, including Equities, Futures, Commodities Futures and FX. This team is very autonomous, and there are plans in place to separate this team from the wider organisation, so that it becomes a totally independent entity before the end of 2012. This team was recently featured on the cover of Bloomberg Magazine, and have had an article on them published in the wall street journal.
The Role: There is a requirement within this team, for a strong, junior economist/technologist/analyst with a keen interest in financial markets. This individual will work closely with both traders and core platform developers, to ensure that the system is working in the most efficient way possible. The system uses automated monitoring, to ensure that the correct levels of a product are traded. It is down to this individual to closely monitor the system, and to flag any issues e.g. if over/under-trading occurs or if there is an issue with bugs etc. It is also important that this individual stay in tune and up to date with the markets, and to be able to pro-actively pre-empt any potential problems. For example, if there is a downturn in a market, how will this affect the system and the products being traded? Will it cope and continue to function efficiently?
The Skills: It is required that any applicant be well versed with UNIX operating systems, and a well-known scripting language, preferably Perl, Python or Shell. Knowledge of programming concepts and SQL would be highly advantageous. All applicants must have an active interest in financial markets and have come from preferably a Computer Science background from a top institution. Any candidate possessing additional education within Economics e.g. a university module or an A-level would be at an advantage. The ideal candidate will have between 1-3 years’ experience post-graduation with either a leading Investment Bank or a Hedge Fund.
The Package: This is a highly profitable internal Hedge Fund team within one of the world’s most successful investment banks. A base of up to £75,000 plus an uncapped bonus mean that total comp will be excellent.
Contact: If this opportunity is of interest, or for a general conversation about the London or global market, please contact Paul Kirtley on 0207 749 6066 or at paulk@montash.com
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