Senior Quant Macro Quant Analyst/ London/ $ High | London, UK

Senior Quant Macro Quant Analyst/ London/ $ High

Eka Finance
London, United Kingdom
Posted: 1 day ago
Type: Permanent
Compensation: $Base + Bonus

Award winning hedge fund in London is looking to add a quantitative researcher with prior experience working on alpha generating strategies in the systematic macro space, using futures. They have recently hired a senior quant and are looking to further expand their quant research team.

Role:

• Develop systematic trading models across FX, futures.
• Alpha idea generation, backtesting, and implementation.
• Assist in building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production and trading environments.
• Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential.
• Improve existing strategies and portfolio optimization.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in quantitative trading, ideally in FX or futures.
• PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or other quantitative discipline.
• Experience with alpha research, portfolio construction and optimization.
• Experience building statistical/technical, fundamental, and data driven signals.
• Extensive experience in systematic macro and FX strategy development, using futures.
• Experience working on/building medium/high frequency systematic strategies.
• Strong experience with data exploration, dimension reduction, and feature engineering.
• Experience managing and running risk is a strong plus.
• Confident Python coder.

Apply: Please send a PDF resume to quants@ekafinance.com.