Trading Analyst - Trading Team

Westren Capital; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 100 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Westren Capital, a London-based proprietary trading firm, seeks a Trading Analyst to support the trading desk with real-time data, analysis, and market context.

You will monitor markets across digital asset venues, build dashboards, and run ad hoc analyses under pressure, helping traders make informed decisions as positions are sized and risk is reassessed.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills; ability to turn messy data into actionable insights.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or similar data analysis tools.
• Interest in digital asset markets, market structure, and trading mechanics.

Responsabilités

• Monitor markets across digital asset venues and flag relevant price action in real time.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports covering positions, PnL, exposure, and market conditions.
• Conduct ad hoc analyses to support trading and risk decisions under tight deadlines and incomplete data.
• Track and analyse historical market events to understand market stress behavior.
• Reconcile trades, positions, and data discrepancies to prevent issues.
• Collaborate with quant and engineering teams to improve data and tooling for the desk.

Connaissances

Analytical skills

Outils

Python

SQL

Description du poste

OperationsFull-timeOn-site London# Trading Analyst - Trading TeamAnnual base salary: £100,000 - £130,000 GBP1. |2. |3. Trading Analyst - Trading Team## Role overviewWestren Capital is a London-based proprietary trading firm specialising in digital asset markets. The Trading Analyst role sits close to the desk, supporting traders and researchers with the data, analysis, and market context needed to make and defend trading decisions in real time.This is not a back-office analytics role. You'll be in the room when positions are being sized and risk is being reassessed, and expected to have an opinion backed by something more than intuition.## Responsibilities* - Monitor markets across digital asset venues and flag relevant price action, liquidity shifts, and news flow to the desk in real time* - Build and maintain dashboards and reports covering positions, PnL, exposure, and market conditions* - Conduct ad hoc analysis to support trading and risk decisions, often against a tight deadline and an incomplete dataset* - Track and analyse historical market events to build institutional knowledge of how this market actually behaves under stress* - Assist in reconciling trades, positions, and data discrepancies before they become a problem rather than after* - Work with quant and engineering teams to improve the data and tooling the desk relies on daily## Requirements* - Strong analytical skills, able to turn messy, incomplete data into something a trader can act on quickly* - Proficiency in Python, SQL, or similar tools for data analysis and reporting* - Genuine interest in and understanding of digital asset markets, market structure, and trading mechanics* - Comfortable working under pressure during volatile market conditions, where the desk needs answers now, not eventually* - Strong attention to detail; small errors in this seat compound quickly into large ones on the book* - Clear communicator, able to summarise complex market conditions concisely for people who need to act on them immediately