Quantitative Analyst

Job Title: Quantitative Analyst Location: Perth (Hybrid) Duration: 6 Months Description: This role takes responsibility to support, drive and represent EM Trading in the Systematic Trading Project that is underway with a core focus on the Strategy workflow and related dependencies. This strategic role will work closely with the Project leadership, in particular the Systematic Trading Project SME. You Will • Work closely with the Systematic Trading Project SME from Trading to provide value across the project from the lens of a Quantitative Analyst responsible for parts of the Strategy workflow in collaboration with Trading Teams • Gain insight to our platform design and provide material input and impact to the technical implementation both for the core platform and the strategy workflow • Provide dedicated support to the project as a whole including non-technical members in workstreams tackling dependencies, including prototyping examples to make theories or complicated logic become tangible examples for project stakeholders • Provide a Quantitative Analyst skillset as a link between project stakeholders and the platform developers, with particular focus time with the Trading SME • Gain direct knowledge and exposure to Commodities Trading (particularly Energy) with a wide scope from asset to proprietary, signal generation to automated execution and all related dependencies specific You will need to have: • Programming: High proficiency in core languages such as Python and SQL (including data workflow from source to action, including schema design, persistence infrastructure etc.), as well as nice to haves including C#, .NET, C++ or otherwise • Development: Familiar with ITIL processes, Agile/DevOps practices, cloud operations, and tools like Visual Studio and Azure DevOps • Quantitative: Expertise in some of the following, statistical analysis, time-series analysis, signal processing, portfolio theory, optimisation, machine learning/AI • Systematic strategies: Exposure and some understanding of Systematic Trading and Strategies for signal generation, automated trading and the full strategy workflow • Trading/Finance: Expertise with full trade lifecycle, trade systems, trading tick data • Commodities: Nice to have, some understanding of systematic asset optimisation, market making and proprietary strategies Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.