Trade Analyst

Main responsibilities/duties :
Providing support to the Portfolio Manager in all investment and non-investment activities related to the successful and efficient running of an absolute return portfolio.
Perform (quantitative) analysis and research under guidance from the Portfolio Manager, own intuition, and in collaboration with other investments teams, working
Create market screening, portfolio optimization and risk tools from predominantly Python, potentially with the ability to use other relevant languages.
Automate any and all possible processes to improve the efficiency and facilitate decision-making processes.
Conduct ongoing risk analysis on the portfolio, performance screening, attribution, risk and any other additional reporting requirements over varying levels to support evaluation, understanding, measurement and management of the portfolio.

Ideal Candidate :
The ideal candidate will have 6-24 months of experience as a trade analyst, quant analyst or equivalent within a buy side, sell side, or analytical/research focused organisation.
They will have built market screening, pricing, optimisation and risk tools used regularly by Portfolio Managers. The ideal candidate will be numerically proficient, advanced in excel, VBA, SQL, python and other relevant languages (optional: R, Matlab, Java, C++, C#) and have a working knowledge of appropriate financial markets.
The successful candidate will be self-motivated, driven, performance orientated, willing to learn, inquisitive and able to work in collaboration with teams or as part of focus groups.

Business skills & knowledge
Working knowledge of requisite asset class.
Minimum VBA, SQL, Python.
Undergraduate (Min) Post-graduate (ideal) in Finance, Mathematical or Data Science academia.

Candidate Pool
Hedge funds/buy side
Market-makers
Sell side
Research
Independent Brokers