Trader

IMC Americas Inc. has multiple openings for Trader (REQ#) in Chicago IL and Brooklyn NY.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Develop maintain and enhance mathematical models strategies and trading system components for quantitative proprietary trading in collaboration with developers (10%).
• Independently design and implement changes to trading models strategies and systems from end-to-end including conceiving of proposed changes creating a testing plan and performing tests and implementing changes (15%).
• Analyze interpret and model financial economic and industry data to optimize trading and maximize revenue generation using existing internal tools (15%).
• Create custom analysis tools for use at the firm to perform research beyond available analysis tools (5%).
• Prepare and present high-quality financial analysis and reports following IMC global guidelines (15%).
• Perform daily operational tasks on the trading desk ensuring systems are running correctly and escalating as needed to designated contacts (15%).
• Supervise and mentor graduate traders and interns (10%).
• Train graduate traders through the firms traineeship (5%).
• Contributing to planning and prioritization decisions of future projects on their trading desk (5%).
• Monitoring and managing a trading firms risk exposure (5%).

Partial telecommuting permitted. Multiple positions available. Requisition Number:

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Mathematics Econometrics Computer Science Financial Engineering Physics or similarly quantitative and mathematical field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related position.

Must have experience in the following skills:

• Developing maintaining and enhancing mathematical models strategies and trading system components for quantitative proprietary trading in collaboration with developers;
• Operating trading strategies through a range of market circumstances having a thorough understanding of risk at any point in time;
• Rolling out and verifying new features on trading strategies;
• Managing a trading firms risk exposure;
• Using Python and python coding libraries including Pandas NumPy and SciPy to assist in quantitative analysis; and
• Experience trading products and navigating compliance regulations in trading markets.

Requires FINRA Certifications: (1) SIE and (2) Series 57.

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About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.