Electronic Trading

Riversdale Consulting specialise in recruiting for the electronic, algorithmic and programme trading arena and over the past four years have formed excellent working relationships with the investment banks, electronically biased brokerages and the complimenting vendor community crossing all asset classes.

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Area's of expertise include Senior Management, Alternative Execution Sales including DMA and Algorithmic, EMS and OMS Sales, DMA Sales trading, Algorithmic Trading Services, Product Management, Business Analysis and Project Management, Support Analysts and generic connectivity such as FIX Engineers.

Riversdale Consulting have a very strong understanding and excellent reputation servicing this marketplace.

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Details for Equity Analytics Product Manager

Business Area: Electronic Trading
Package: £VP
Type: Perm
Location: London
Start Date:

Contact Name: Marcus Newman
Contact Email: mnewman@riversdaleconsulting.com
Contact Phone Number: 0203 371 6853

My client, a tier one bank is currently looking to recruit an individual to run their European Analytics division here in London.

The role will include :

• Scoping business requirements to develop quantitative equity trading analytical tools that include pre-trade, intra-trade, post-trade, liquidity management and portfolio optimization products.
• Gain a detailed understanding of the quantitative computations of multiple analytical modules and suggest refinements and improvements to cost metrics so as to effectively measure impact cost, performance metrics and P&L.
• Be the chief liaison between multiple groups including Senior Traders, R&D, Quantitative Products and Technology teams to develop and deliver a suite of analytical tools that provide insight into the decision making process through the lifecycle of a trade.
• Gain an in-depth understanding transactional and market data sources that feed multiple analytical modules with the goal of suggesting improvements and refinements to the current computation and calculation methodologies.
• Develop a deep understanding of market micro-structure issues that impact cash, program and electronic equity markets so as to pro-actively suggest new product ideas and product enhancements that allow us to maintain and augment our market leader position in Global Markets.
• Synthesize and analyze transaction data to decipher performance trends, make recommendations to improve trade performance and effectively communicate the same to internal trading desks.
• Ad hoc projects related to business analysis, competitor analysis, and trading research.

Requirements
 College or Graduate degree in Finance or Math from a leading university
 A strong understanding of the equity markets including an understanding of equity trading, algorithmic trading, liquidity management and transaction cost analysis
 Excellent skills in analyzing complex and cross-functional data so as to effectively define and structure business requirements by translating them into robust business/product specifications.
 A proven track record in project management working in a global environment.
 Prior experience working with large datasets and databases.
 Prior experience with SQL, VBA or KDB+ is a plus
 An understanding of technology alternatives that have an impact on the equity markets
 Detailed oriented with an ability to work across multiple groups and understand multiple disciplines including trading, technology, quantitative products and databases.
 Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must
 Progress towards the CFA charter is desirable

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