eFX Quant Trader
| Posting date: | 24 July 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2024 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00236350 |
Summary
Join us as an eFX Quant Trader
- We’re looking for someone to join our eFX Quant Trading team to drive further automation of the FX franchise
- Day-to-day, you’ll lead initiatives to deliver change to the FX business that supports clients and the bottom line
- This is an opportunity to progress your career in a top tier UK and leading FX bank while working in a truly inclusive environment
What you'll do
You’ll take a lead in partnering primarily with Quants, Technologists, Traders and Sales to progress the automation and performance of the eFX business to meet strategic objectives. By generating and seeking input to ideas, you’ll also create solutions to automate, increase profitability, reduce costs, grow market share and make sure risks are well managed, including building proof of concept algorithm changes and new analytics.
We’ll look to you to assist prioritising work within Tech and Quant teams to deliver change considering costs and benefits. To promote the business and understand market developments and opportunities, you’ll engage with management, stakeholders, clients and platforms as appropriate.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Taking a leading role to progress the eFX trading business
- Collaborating across multiple teams to seek opportunities to meet business objectives for automation, performance and costs, and implementing change to capture them
- Building analytics and proof of concept algo changes
- Evaluating relative costs and benefits to prioritise work competing for quant and technology resources
- Taking steps to make sure trading activities are in line with group policies covering market, conduct, operational, credit and regulatory risks
- Helping sales to promote the FX business and deliver strategic objectives
The skills you'll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll have a proven experience in creating and delivering trading automation in line with strategic objectives along with leadership and collaborative skills to navigate complex trading problems.
You’ll also have quantitative and coding skills and market knowledge to develop proof of concept algo and analytics enhancements. We’ll expect you to have prior experience in FX spot, forward or NDF products.
We’ll also expect you to have:
- A commercial mindset with experience of working in trading or with traders
- Experience in leading change in trading automation
- The ability to solve complex problems and build analytics and explain them succinctly
- Experience dealing with customers
- Good interpersonal and communication skills