- Build and lead a high-impact quant & risk analytics function
- Market competitive salary with good potential upsides
About Our Client
Our client is a rapidly growing financial markets firm operating across multiple asset classes and regions, with a strong focus on data-driven trading performance and risk management.
With a distributed global footprint and continued expansion into new products, they are investing heavily in advanced analytics, trading infrastructure, and quantitative capabilities to maintain a competitive edge.
Job Description
- Design the team structure and lead 5-10 quant researchers across four domains, and
establish the quantitative and analytics stack as the only source of truth for the firm's
commercial and risk performance.
- Drive product settings optimisation (spreads, fees, promotions); build client segmentation,
LTV and deposit-conversion models; run controlled commercial experiments with
measurable P&L impact.
- Oversee quoting quality, inventory efficiency and capital deployment; develop flow-quality
scoring for institutional counterparties and liquidity partners.
- Own real-time exposure and P&L attribution monitoring; build and govern A/B-book routing
logic, flow-toxicity classification and hedging strategy quantification.
- Lead the analytics layer for bonus abuse, arbitrage abuse, multi-accounting and payment
fraud detection; work alongside the fraud operations team to reduce losses and cut
detection latency.
- Translate analysis into board-ready recommendations; maintain model governance and
analytical independence; lead Stage 2 expansion into additional asset classes.
The Successful Applicant
- 10+ years in quantitative analytics, trading risk or quant research, with a clear leadership
track record
- Prior ownership of an analytics or risk function - models that changed decisions, not just
dashboards
- Deep domain expertise in at least one of: retail FX/multi-asset brokerage, market making /
HFT, or derivatives risk
- Hands-on applied statistics / ML and data engineering: Python, SQL, large real-time datasets
- Demonstrated ability to influence commercial and risk decisions at desk-head and executive
level
- Comfortable operating alongside directional market risk
What's On Offer
This is a rare opportunity to shape a critical analytics function at the heart of a growing trading organisation. The role offers significant influence over commercial and risk strategy, alongside the chance to build a team and infrastructure from the ground up. You will benefit from strong senior leadership exposure, a performance-driven culture, and long-term career progression aligned with the company's expansion across markets and asset classes.
Contact
Quote job ref: JN-062026-7051479
