Asset Management, Equity Trading Analytics and Strategy, Vice President

Description

The Equity Trading Analytics and Strategy team is focused on the quantitative analysis of trading performance and strategy development. This involves detailed transaction cost analysis (TCA), design of systematic trading strategies, and supporting the ongoing trading process. The analytics function is performed by a global team with members in New York, London and Hong Kong using a global trading analytics platform. We are looking for a talented VP level candidate to lead the Asian region.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and assist in the implementation of systematic trading systems/strategies with traders and technology teams
• Own the reporting of trading performance for the Asian region
• Enhance the tools and processes used to monitor the performance of brokers, traders and strategies
• Manage the health and development of the analytics platform for the Asian region (e.g. OMS/EMS data feeds and market data services)
• Management of the other Asian analyst

Qualifications

Required:

• Professional experience in a programming language for data analytics (Python/R/Matlab)
• Strong SQL and Tableau experience
• Experience in an equity trading, strategist or analytics role
• Ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner to traders and senior investors
• Good understanding of Asian equity market microstructure
• Good understanding of technology development methods and strong working relationships with technology teams in delivering large scale projects

Desirable:

• CFA
• Knowledge and experience in machine learning (especially clustering and bandit algorithms)
• Knowledge and experience in various OMS / EMS data models
• Past experience working in a global team

Python, SQL, Tableau