An exciting opportunity to join a Single Family Office based in London.
This is a well-established and private family who are looking to hire an individual happy to work as part of a small team and looking to be committed for the long term. The successful candidate will be responsible for idea generation and day-to-day implementation of systematic equity trading strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Formulate trading strategies, taking into consideration benchmarks, liquidity demands, risk and cost.
- Analyse market conditions and conduct detailed research on the financial, social, and economic data and information.
- Recommend ideas and suggestions in order to improve the present algorithms or help in the creation of new ones.
- Design potential strategies related to trading and determine a course of action that needs to be taken.
- Evaluate the risk involved and make appropriate decisions and prepare the relevant reports.
- Constantly monitor and review the transactions to verify the accuracy and ensure that they are in conformance with the rules and regulations of the governing organizations.
- Stay abreast of market events and dynamics, share thoughts and insights with the investment and trading community.
- Pro-actively contribute, evolve and innovate the trading processes to enhance efficiencies, reduce cost and/or reduce risk.
- Build relationships with the broker community.
- Operate as part of a highly collaborative and supportive team culture.
Ideal candidate will have:
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience at an asset manager, hedge fund or investment bank.
- Understanding of algorithmic trading methodologies and strong grasp of algorithmic trading tools.
- Demonstrable experience in trading based on technical analytics.
- Degree educated; preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, finance or a related field.
- Confident with technology and the ability to learn how to use multiple platforms.
- Team player with effective communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple relationships internally and externally and have negotiation skills.
- Enthusiastic and positive approach to challenges.
- Adaptable and comfortable working in an entrepreneurial and dynamically changing environment.
- Highly developed quantitative and analytical skills.
- Strong understanding of market structure.
- Ability to perform well under pressure and deliver within tight deadlines.
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