Trading Strategist / PM - HK
Trading Strategist / PM - HK
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Job Description
Portfolio Manager
Athena Capital Research is a global quantitative investment manager with offices in New York and Hong Kong. With strengths in technology and finance we combine discipline and creativity to achieve success in the growing field of automated trading. The firm was formed in 2003 and our Hong Kong office in 2010. The Hong Kong office is Athenas Asia headquarters and manages the firms highly successful Asia-focused strategies. We are looking for exceptional individuals to join our elite team.
Job description
Our hedge fund specializes in fully automated trading. We have developed a best-in-class automated trading platform featuring direct market access to major financial exchanges and a complete system for developing and automating trading strategies. We will provide the technology the capital detailed historical data lowest cost commissions and highest quality executionsyou will leverage these tools to build profitable trading strategies. Weve built the body you build the brains.
This position will be directly responsible for generating profits for the company. A core part of our culture is to share profits with people who are responsible for them. Therefore this position is potentially very lucrative. We will provide you with the resources needed; it will be up to you to develop and drive these strategies to maximum profitability.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain quantitative trading models by researching and establishing investment strategies
Oversee daily performance and evaluate against historical data
Assess portfolio to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements firm policies and portfolio investment strategies
Collaborate with Trade Ops to ensure stable deployment of quantitative strategies
Requirements
3 years managing and developing strategies and managing portfolio risk
M.S. or Ph.D. degree from a top-tier school in a technical scientific and/or quantitative field
2 years of experience with a major object oriented programming language (C / Java / C# preferred)
2 years of experience working with Unix-based systems
Strong desire to conquer the challenge of outperforming other financial market participants
Self-motivated hardworking creative and competitive personality
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Skills
Statistical modeling time series machine learning big data or other data modeling experience
Matlab R Stata numPy Pandas: expertise with any of these is a plus
Employment Type
Full-Time
