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The Financial Markets (FM) landscape
The Financial Markets (FM) landscape is rapidly going through a process of digitisation, at the core of which is eTrading. eTrading at ING covers all products traded in ING FM. These span from the very liquid and electronic products (cash equities, futures, commodities and FX), Fixed Income products (corporate and government bonds) which are in the process of becoming electronic due to balance sheet reduction and regulation, to the less liquid and less electronic derivative products. Data is core to eTrading and eTrading also covers the data and business intelligence strategy.
Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role
The Quant will be part of the eTrading team and will be responsible for creating the new generation of pricing and hedging algorithms.
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Career Potential
- Strong exposure to trading teams in London but also other global FM trading locations;
- Exposure to other global ING eTrading teams;
- Scope for career progression within eTrading and trading functions.
Candidate Profile
Qualification/Education
- Essential: MSc in quantitative subject
- Desired: PhD in quantitative subject.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working on an eFX trading desk developing pricing and hedging strategies;
- Excellent understanding of Statistics and Machine Learning models;
- Strong research and analysis skills (Python) including machine learning libraries;
- Interest in financial markets;
- Flexibility in development technologies. Expected to work with different technologies and languages (Python, Java, Broadway, KDB, Proprietary Software).
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Desirable:
- Having personally developed pricing and hedging strategies running in production;
- Experience in client and franchise optimisation of an electronic trading desk;
- Experience with q/KDB+ and Java.
Personal Competencies
Essential:
- Hands-on mentality;
- Ability to deliver without supervision;
- Creative learning and thinking, passion for technology;
- Proactive behaviour and perpetual energy and drive to improve performance;
- Challenger of the status quo, always striving to do things more efficiently and effectively;
- Genuine team player.
Desirable:
- Customer and product focus;
- Clear, concise and transparent communicator.
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