GRIT - Desk Quantitative Strategist

DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT; Singapore; On-site; SGD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT in Singapore is seeking a Trading Quantitative Strategist Trainee to support front-office desks with real-time pricing, risk management, and AI-enhanced insights in a high-performance environment.

The role targets fresh graduates from 2024–2026, no prior experience, full-time traineeship, strong coding in R/Python, and familiarity with AI tools, reporting to senior desk strats.

Qualifications

• Innovative coding ability in R or Python with exposure to AI tools.
• Recent graduates with class years 2024–2026 and readiness for full-time traineeship.
• Lack of prior work experience but strong willingness to learn and contribute.

Responsibilities

• Scope and rationalize business requirements.
• Design and implement business applications.
• Attend regular meetings with other strats on projects.
• Maintain development documentation.
• Develop pricing knowledge and/or AI capabilities for real business use cases.
• Understand front-office activities and daily processes.

Skills

R

Python

AI tools

Education

Fresh graduates 2024/2025/2026

Job description

About the group:

The Trading Quantitative Strategist operates within a front-office, client-aligned environment, directly supporting trading desks with high-impact quantitative expertise. This role is pivotal in driving revenue through real-time pricing, risk management, and strategic decision-making and tightly linked to the commercial success of the trading desk.
The position reports to senior desk strats and interacts with other strats and traders directly. GSA is committed to an employee-orientated, high performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, quality, continuous improvement, and the recruitment and on-going development of a superior workplace.

Key responsibilities:

• Business requirement scoping and rationalization
• Business application design and implementation
• Regular meeting and discussions with other strats in the projects
• Manage the essential documentation for the development
• Build pricing knowledges and/or AI capabilities in real business use cases
• Gain understanding to typical front office activities and daily critical business processes

Skills required:

• Fresh graduates who have graduated in 2024/2025/2026 from Universities, Polytechnics, Institutes of Technical Education (ITE), or other Educational Institutions (e.g. private universities and overseas institutions); or Graduated earlier from above institutions and completed National Service in 2024/2025/2026.
• No prior work experience and must be ready to commit to a full-time traineeship
• Strong coding skills with experience in languages like R, Python and working knowledge of AI tools