Global Markets Division, FICC, Systematic Market Making – Systematic Trader, VP, Paris

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Global Markets Division, FICC, Systematic Market Making – Systematic Trader, VP, Paris



Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

FX SMM is a systematic trading business covering market-making in spot and forwards plus a range of systematic “solutions” businesses such as Currency Overlay and cross-border payments. As an automated trading business, FX SMM manages the financial as well as operational risks inherent in this endeavor. We are looking for a local trading supervisor in Paris. Ideally this would be a someone who could both help manage the trading business and input into ongoing research work on the market making business and in systematic trading strategy generation. The role would be a Trader Who Codes (TWC), combining analytic and development tasks with risk-management.

Principal Responsibilities

Local supervisor for the automated GFXC trading businesses.
Manage the operational risks inherent in a fast-moving automated trading business.
Understand the regulatory and supervisory environment and demonstrate ownership of our obligations and responsibilities under this.
Generate ideas for strategies that will add value to pricing and risk-management. The signals may have value across asset classes but the primary goal is to enhance the FX business.
Build, test and deploy those strategies in a fast-paced production environment.
Collaborative working with colleagues across business lines and across regions.
Work productively with people outside the electronic trading business, e.g. other traders, strats and engineers in the firm.

Experience/Skills

Experience in automated trading, ideally in FX
Track-record of successful management of operational and market risk.
Track record of generating and deploying systematic trading strategies.
Proven ability to analyze large data sets and draw useful commercial conclusions.
Development in real-time algorithmic systems. Familiarity with Java and Python preferred, though not absolutely essential. In the absence of these, strong familiarity with alternative languages is essential to demonstrating an ability to develop production code.
Ability to communicate and work collaboratively within their own team and with other parts of the firm, e.g. voice trading, other technology teams and functions like economic research which have varying levels of technical knowledge.
Demonstrated understanding of and engineering of a safe operating environment, particularly regarding the control environment around electronic trading.



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