• Rapidly Expanding Proprietary Trading Company: Extremely Profitable
• Build and Manage Trading Strategies: Full Lifecycle Involvement
• Exuberant and Dynamic Team Environment

The Company
This is an exceptional opportunity to join one of Australia's most exciting and rapidly expanding proprietary trading organisations. The company employs exceptionally bright and dynamic mathematical individuals to develop global financial market trading strategies (equity market making, statistical arbitrage). Highly ambitious and driven, this company only employs the most talented and intelligent individuals with exceptional mathematical and logical problem solving abilities.

The Team
The Quantitative Research Team is responsible for building and managing trading strategies that are then utilised by the operations team. This is a team of exuberant highly qualified professionals where high motivation and entrepreneurial spirit is the key to their extraordinary success. Due to growth, they require a number of quantitative analysts with varying levels of experience to work within this multifaceted quantitative research team (6 people).

The Role
Full life cycle development of systemic trading strategies: generating ideas, researching and developing, building, back-testing and managing. In addition, it will involve enhancements on existing trading strategies. Highly advanced mathematical and logical problem solving abilities will be essential. Software skills will also be utilised in the development of the trading strategies: C++ Java, Excel, Microsoft VBA, SQL.

You will need to be self-motivated and highly ambitious to succeed. Your primary tasks will be to resolve solve complex mathematical based business opportunities problems based on specific large sets of inter-related data. A strong intellect and meticulous approach to problem solving is essential. A short but extremely challenging mental test in your relevant area will be applied as part of the screening process.

Responsibilities include:

• Quantitative analysis
• Full life cycle development of systemic trading strategies
• Idea Generation
• Research and development
• Back-testing
• Managing strategies after implementation
• Coordinating with Front Office traders

Skills required include:

• Tertiary qualified (BSc minimum MSc PhD): 1st class or distinction level.
• Quantitative related discipline: (eg Quantitative Finance, Maths, Engineering, Computer Science)
• Exceedingly high natural mathematical passion and ability
• C++ Java
• Excel, VBA, SQL
• Experience as a Quantitative Analyst not essential.
• Understanding of signal image processing, control theory, time series analysis and game theory preferred but not essential

Non technical skills required include:

• Highly ambitious, self-sufficient and driven
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Conscientious and logical approach to problem solving
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills