The Central Liquidity Strategies (CLS) business manages a number of portfolios and products designed to optimize the firm’s trading and execution approach by providing internal liquidity solutions for portfolio managers on both a risk and agency basis.

We are currently seeking a Senior Quantitative Analyst with execution and trading-focused experience to join a small group of technical execution quants in the firms central trading division. The team partners with trading technology teams, portfolio managers, business dev teams, traders with the goal of building scalable, automated trading processes.

The team consults, advises, and assists the firm’s traders and portfolio managers to improve their trading. We collaborate with the firm’s technologists to enhance trading systems and build new products. We maintain working relationships with our sell-side broker partners to help with the evaluation and design of their algorithms and other trading services.

Principal Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Steer product development of the firm’s central trading processes and internal liquidity pools, soliciting appropriate input from various stakeholders
• Improve and broaden the firm’s existing processes that evaluate and drill into trading performance of a particular portfolio management team
• Look for and recommend possible opportunities to improve execution quality by interpreting performance reports and performing custom analysis
• Contribute to feature development in the analysis system (expansion by asset class, product specifics, trading style specifics, and additional market coverage)
• Conduct research, identify patterns, evaluate trends
• Formulate and test hypotheses, design tests, interpret results
• Communicate all ideas, questions, and conclusions concisely and effectively
• Contribute to regular data maintenance, monitoring, and cleaning
• Develop expertise in the firm’s trading practices and industry developments
• Understand and keep abreast of all relevant regulatory and market constraints

Qualifications/Skills Required

• 8+ years of relevant experience in the trading and finance industry
• Experience in a trading logic/execution capacity for a systematic trading process strategy on the buy side or experience working on electronic trading platforms on the sell side
• Experience as a hands-on development lead, mentoring and guiding junior developers
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in STEM, Statistics or similar disciplines
• Basic principles of statistical inference and excellent quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and develop actionable insights
• Experience with Python and KDB
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Extensive experience with Asia market structure Strategy