Quant Trader - Equity Options

A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

Competitive compensation package

Annual discretionary bonus

Group pension plan

Enhanced annual leave allowance after 2+ years’ service

25 days’ annual leave (plus public holidays)

We are looking for an ambitious and proactive Equity Options Quant Trader to join our Vol Alpha Trading Team. This is a full-cycle quant trader position within a semi-systematic desk that specialises in statistical arbitrage relative value volatility,  flow-aware volatility position taking, and opportunistic dispersion trades across global equity volatilities, with a current emphasis on US equity options.

The team runs an investment operation focusing on informed position taking combining statistical information and market flows observations. The successful candidate will play a key role in the desk’s day to day operation and future evolution as it expands its volatility strategies set as well as broader operation capabilities across products.

The role will suit candidates with quantitative research or trading experience as part of a large volatility desk who want to transition into a more hands-on buy side risk-taking role which deploy statistical methods to extract alpha while having full understanding on what is driving an alpha’s performance. The successful candidate will experience an end-to-end investment process from market intuition, alpha discovery, to trade execution, which translates to a potential heavy contribution to the desk’s success and take meaningful ownership in PnL.

Monitor and rationalise market flow to identify pricing dislocations

Analyse and interpret other market participants’ positionings to identify trading opportunities