Quant Analyst (Macro) New London, England, United Kingdom

Verition Fund Management LLC ("Verition") is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

We are seeking a Quantitative Analyst to join one of our Fixed Income trading teams. This is an ideal position for an early career applicant looking to join an investment team with a path to eventual alpha generation and portfolio management.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop various tools in Python that will be crucial for analysis, research, trading, and risk management purposes
• Design and build robust and scalable systems that can automatically collect, store, and transform data coming from various sources
• Use these tools/systems to help direct and augment investment theses and processes
• Enhance current risk management systems and create efficient risk visualization tools
• Ensure integrity of data management pipeline and the underlying data itself, and actively identify, diagnose, and remedy data issues
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements for existing systems and platforms
• Communicate regularly with team managers across Portfolio managers, Ops, and Technology
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal tech and data teams, researchers, traders, and outside vendors
• Commitment to safeguarding team information and adhering to business sensitivity
• Ultimately be responsible for adding discernable allocatable value to the business bottom line

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of professional experience (finance experience preferable).
• High proficiency in VBA, Python, Linux and Bloomberg Terminal
• High attention to detail with great critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and ability to tackle complex design problems systematically and methodically
• Ability to prioritize tasks appropriately and communicate effectively with proper escalation of issues, risks, and concerns
• Interest in financial data and in joining a new, growing team
• Team player with a positive attitude
• Fast learner, able to pick up new concepts/tasks/projects quickly and unafraid to ask questions

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