eFX Quant Trading Associate
| Posting date: | 13 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00264011 |
Summary
Join us as an eFX Quant Trading Associate
- We’re looking for someone to join our eFX Quant Trading team to improve our linear eFX client offering and profitability
- Day-to-day, you’ll participate in 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 collaborate primarily with Traders, Sales, Quants, Technologists and Risk functions to improve the performance of the eFX business across spot, forwards and NDFs to meet strategic objectives. By running and creating analysis and reports you’ll optimise the prevailing eFX business and support management. 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.
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:
- Contributing to progressing 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
- Providing 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 electronic and algorithmic markets, creating and delivering trading automation in line with strategic objectives along with strong communication and collaborative skills to navigate complex trading and analytical 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 financial markets, preferably 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 running or developing trading automation
- The ability to solve complex problems and build analytics and explain them succinctly
- Experience dealing with customers
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills