Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate . Maven continues to scale its operations while preserving the dynamic energy and innovative culture of a start-up, but without the associated risks.
The Role:
- Improve Returns on Existing Strategies: Analyze performance on a trade and strategy level to identify inefficiencies of optimisation areas. Deliver recommendations backed by data and maintain follow through.
- Develop Analytics Infrastructure: Build scalable tools that provide consistent analytics across strategies. Enhance visibility and transparency across Maven.
- Highlight Trading Risks & Opportunities: monitor portfolio exposures, performance trends, and market signals to highlight emerging risks and identify underutilized or mispriced opportunities across various strategies.
- Support Strategy Development: support the PM onboarding process, and business development initiatives into new product groups and strategies.
Candidate Specifications:
- Strong Python and Excel skills
- An analytical background
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Ability to demonstrate wider interest in financial markets
- Outstanding numerical skills
- Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities
- Ability to take a high level of responsibility in an expanding, highly successful firm
- Excellent attention to detail
- Fast problem-solving skills
What We Offer:
- A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
- The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
- Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
- A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact
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What We Do
Maven implements both fundamental and quantitative trading & market making strategies across global financial markets, utilising only the group’s capital. We see ourselves just as much a technology firm as a multi-strat trading firm.
We aim to equip our traders with the best tools we can. We channel the advances in computer learning, processing power and network capacity into streamlining and improving all aspects of the trading operation, from front office to settlements. This is paired with meticulous and attentive execution and conservative risk management.
If you would like to learn more about working at Maven please visit: https://www.mavensecurities.com/work-at-maven/
