Alexander Black Recruitment is urgently looking for a Systematic / Algo Prop Trader to join our high profile client.

My client is an independent proprietary trading house run by a very successful banking team who successfully ported their clients. They offer full infrastructure for algo trading and are looking to partner with a successful trader to leverage their capital. They currently base their stagey on commodity futures but are happy to look at equity options. Their investment strategy combines fundamental and quantitative analysis with dynamic hedging to produce a superior source of returns in a liquid environment.

The position is within our Quant Trading team responsible for generating profitable automated trading strategies for the fund. The successful candidate must be entrepreneurial and will benefit from our solid in-house proprietary trading infrastructure and low-latency direct market access across a wide range of markets. As profitability is proven, there will be the opportunity to extend your own team by hiring junior quant/algo traders to further grow PnL.

They are looking to grow their systematic / algo trading desk and are looking for traders with systems that work.

The ideal candidate will be a successful Quant Strategist / Algo Trader with a minimum of 2 years’ experience building profitable fully automated trading strategies.

• Experience managing and developing automated strategies
• Experience in managing a trading book, trading systematic intraday or longer term futures based strategies
• M.S. or Ph.D. degree from a top-tier school in a technical, scientific, and/or quantitative field
• A solid understanding of financial markets, econometrics with a strong statistical sense.
• Solid object oriented programming skills (C++ / Java / Matlab)

They offer full capital backing.

My client is based in London

If this sounds of interest then please send your most recent cv to banking@alexanderblackrecruitment.co.uk or call James Holland on 0207 590 3681