Quantitative Trading Analyst
Quantitative Trading Analyst
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About Us
Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership we believe our ownership structure fosters a longterm view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
About the Role
THE POSITION
The Global Trading department is seeking to recruit a Quantitative Trading Analyst to work on our Trading Research & Analytics team in Boston.
Wellington Managements Trading Department employs over 60 traders globally and operates in specialized teams according to sectors regions and products. Our investment and trading activities are conducted on an industry leading internally developed software platform which we believe creates a meaningful competitive advantage and is an asset to our trading data strategy. The Trading Research & Analytics team is an inhouse team of managers and analysts who oversee the business of the department and provide indepth actionoriented insights into our trading capabilities and activities. Some of the more focused projects include:
- Profiling our systematic order flows to determine the optimal electronic/algorithmic strategy that will minimize the total cost of .
- Profiling our investment driven order flows to unearth momentum signals that can be incorporated into the pre trade strategizing process for improving outcomes.
- Developing a research and reporting infrastructure designed to monitor the performance of systematic strategies and momentum signals to gauge future efficacy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partnering with investors traders broker/dealers and various internal stakeholders to improve overall results through innovation actionable trading research and enhanced decisionmaking tools.
- Designing a Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) framework for Global Trading that supports our client reporting best and insights.
- Working with trading technology external vendors and the dealer community on producing a highquality data environment surrounding the life cycle of a trade.
- Understanding equity and/or fixed income market structure trends and how to evolve our electronic trading strategy.
QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate is likely to have:
- Personal qualities and values that are consistent with and would be additive to Wellington Managements culture.
- Self motivated individual who exhibits ownership in their work with excellent independent decisionmaking skills and superior judgement.
- Creative problemsolver who can work effectively under tight deadlines and other pressures.
- Collaborative teamplayer.
- Experienced programmer preferably in Python; working knowledge of SQL; familiarity with machine learning data analysis and data modeling.
- Proven organizational and communication skills with an emphasis on accuracy concision and timeliness.
- Working knowledge of quantitative tools and technologies used for Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) order and risk management.
- Experience in trading workflows and familiarity with financial markets; knowledge of electronic trading platforms and trading systems.
- Experience with business intelligence and data visualization software preferably Tableau would be viewed favorably.
- A minimum 35 years relevant work experience in the financial services industry.
- Strong academic credentials; a Bachelors degree is required; a graduate degree and/or professional coursework/certifications (or progress toward) would be additive.
Not sure you meet 100 of our qualifications Thats ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill workplace experiences and backgrounds.
As an equal opportunity employer Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression religion creed national origin age ancestry disability (physical or mental) medical condition citizenship marital status pregnancy veteran or military status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability or are assisting a candidate with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs please email us at .
At Wellington Management our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract inspire and retain the best talent in our strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary variable compensation and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:
USDThis range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.
Base salaryis only one component of Wellingtons total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives if eligible. In addition we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan health and wellbeing dental vision and pharmacy coverage health savings account flexible spending accounts and commuter program employee assistance program life and disability insurance adoption assistance backup childcare tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absencepaid holidays volunteer sick and vacation time)
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Employment Type
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