Job Responsibilities
- Work as a trader on the US Program Trading (PT) Risk team
- Handle trading of large portfolios of stocks
- Engage with the PT sales team on facilitating client risk trades and ETF creations and redemptions
- Predict Index rebalancing events and test related trading strategies.
- Utilize portfolio construction models to hedge and reduce the risk associated with portfolio management strategies.
- Have significant interaction with trading and sales teams across the Equities division including High Touch, ETF and Central Risk Book teams
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Undergraduate, Graduate in Quantitative degree.
- Two or more years of sell-side or buy-side trading experience, ideally in Index Rebalancing or Program Trading.
- Experience in managing portfolio management strategies with positions on large portfolios; fluency in risk factors.
- Exposure to statistical modelling, time series or other data modelling experience
- Very self-motivated, willing to be part of a dynamic and competitive team
- FINRA licenses including Series 7, 63 and 57
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Coding experience in Python is strongly desired
- Knowledge of kdb/q is a plus