Senior Quantitative Analyst - Risk & Fraud Systems

Traze; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Zeal Group, a global FinTech powerhouse, is seeking a Senior Quantitative Analyst to own the risk and fraud analytics backbone of our trading platform. This hands-on role focuses on building detection, monitoring, and automation to identify toxic flow and latency arbitrage, with autonomy reporting to Head of Risk.

You will leverage machine learning and data science in financial markets, design end-to-end pipelines, and mentor junior analysts as the function grows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Quant/Trading or FX/CFD brokerage in a quantitative or analytics role
• Proficient in Python; experience building production-grade tools
• Experience delivering end-to-end data science projects
• Strong knowledge of financial trading products and execution mechanics
• Understanding fraud/abuse patterns in trading (toxic flow, latency arbitrage)
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field
• Self-directed with high ownership

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend infrastructure, monitoring tools, and detection algorithms used to identify toxic flow, latency arbitrage, and abusive trading patterns
• Investigate trading activity, detect suspicious behavior, and report findings
• Analyze existing and new trading products and promotions for fraud/abuse exposure and propose mitigations
• Classify clients to support A-book/B-book decisioning and profitable execution outcomes
• Own end-to-end delivery: from raw data extraction and hypothesis testing through to production deployment of monitoring and alerting systems
• Continuously identify gaps in current processes and design new logic to increase automation and reduce manual intervention
• Mentor others on technical and analytical approaches as the function grows

Skills

Python

Quant/Trading

Data Science

Machine Learning

End-to-end Projects

Financial Markets Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Physics/Finance

Tools

SQL

Dashboards/Monitoring Tools

Production-grade Tools

Job description

Zeal Group, a global FinTech powerhouse, is seeking a Senior Quantitative Analyst to own the risk and fraud analytics backbone of our trading platform. This hands-on role focuses on building detection, monitoring, and automation to identify toxic flow and latency arbitrage, with autonomy reporting to Head of Risk.

You will leverage machine learning and data science in financial markets, design end-to-end pipelines, and mentor junior analysts as the function grows.