Mathematics, Statistics & Information Sciences

Job Responsibilities:

- Analyze various financial markets such as G10/EM (especially countries such as China, Korea, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong) in asset classes like FX, Rates, Equity

- Follow closely various markets and be able to provide market color on an ad-hoc basis, with more in-depth research and inquiries to different entities

- Generate trade ideas backed with rigorous fundamental research, back-testing, and also via collaboration with quant and risk teams

- Gather, clean up and analyse the related data to support the research and trade ideas generation works

Stress-testing the ideas to gauge environments in which the ideas may fail to perform

- Examine trading data in an effort to increase profitability and/or decrease risk on trade ideas and devising the simulations needed to test them

Skills and Background Requirements:

- Ph.D degree in a quantitative subject (Engineering / Physics / Mathematics / Statistics etc.)

- Intellectual curiosity and a passion for understanding financial markets

- Demonstrated capacity to do first-class research

Strong communication skills (both written and verbal), ability to describe complex concepts to wider audiences

- Basic understanding of pricing models in FX, Rates, and Equities

- Experience with corporate finance, trading or investment banking is preferred

- A solid coding background with proficiency in Python and relevant quantitative packages