RATES RV DESK ANALYST/TRADER - HEDGE FUND - NYC - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Supporting a Portfolio Manager, the Desk Analyst/Trader will directly contribute to risk-taking activities including trade idea generation, monitoring markets and building constructive tools & models.

• Track market developments and economic activity to manage risk and identify investment opportunities
• Support and enhance the PM's research process.
• Build quantitative/statistical models and tools
• Work alongside the quant research team to provide analytics and ad-hoc data driven projects to assist the Portfolio Manager

Skills & experience required:

• Educated at a top tier college (ideally to MSc level) in a quantitative driven subject
• Prior work experience of 1-5 years in a closely related field such as trading, market-making, strategy/research, junior PM etc.
• Fixed Income / Rates product knowledge is essential
• Experience with an advanced programming language, Python being highly desirable