Index Rebalance Trader - London, United Kingdom - Squarepoint

Squarepoint

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

5 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Location(s): London, Singapore

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients.

We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research.

As a technology and data driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms.

With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology, and operations teams functionally around the world.

We are looking to add an Index Rebalance Trader to our Index Trading team.

As a member of our team, you will partner closely with our Index Researchers, Quant Developers, and Portfolio Managers, who are responsible for discretionary and semi-systematic strategies around Index Rebalancing events.

As a collaborative organization, our Index Rebalance Traders work closely with Quantitative Researchers to leverage our world-class research platform to improve both discretionary and systematic strategies.

This is an opportunity for you to leverage and develop a broad range of skills including quantitative research, portfolio construction, risk management and execution.

If you have demonstrated experience working within index rebalance strategies, we encourage you to apply.

Overview of Position:

Bookrunning a discretionary portfolio. This includes daily monitoring, trading, maintenance, and hedging a portfolio to maintain target position.
Collaborate with portfolio managers and quantitative researchers to structure and evaluate new trading opportunities
Leverage internal data and research tools as well as external research and relationships to identify trading opportunities
Research and implement new trading strategies

Responsibilities:

Trade an index rebalancing book, integrating internal/external index research predictions, as well as index announcements data
Monitor news, events, market changes which can impact the portfolio and advise Senior Portfolio Manager on necessary adjustments
Analyze portfolio performance and risk
Conduct some research to identify new trading opportunities

Qualifications:

27 years of relevant industry experience
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or related field, advanced degree preferred
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with teammates globally
Ability to work well in a fastpaced environment
Programming skills (Python, Q/kdb) preferred