Quantitative Researcher
Company Description We are Swissquote and we challenge the code to deliver innovative services & products that make financial opportunities accessible to everyone. We deliver our services to
We are Swissquote and we challenge the code to deliver innovative services & products that make financial opportunities accessible to everyone.
We deliver our services to + 450’000 clients who can trade over 3 million products through performant and secured platforms.
As well as various online trading products (stocks, cryptocurrencies, bonds, funds, derivative products…), we provide Forex, Robo-Advisory and Mortgages solutions.
That makes us the Swiss Leader in online Banking!
Join our 1000 employees all over the world to accelerate your career in fast-moving and rock-solid company! We keep on growing and at the end of June 2022, Swissquote held over 50 billion Swiss francs in assets for more than 520,000 private and institutional clients.
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You will join the Quantitative Research Department as a Quantitative Researcher.
As a team, we perform research in collaboration with academics as well as on applied projects for our business needs. We want to provide best-in-class quantitative solutions to our day-to-day business partners. We work with teams such as Risk, Trading, Treasury and Market Strategists.
You will:
- Perform research on market microstructure, high-frequency volatility forecasting and work on tick data
- Work in collaboration with a professor at EPFL
- Use machine learning techniques where appropriate
- Create high quality research with results that can be deployed in production
- PhD/MSc in a quantitative subject such as quantitative finance, statistics, mathematics or other similar fields from a top ranked university
- Experience working with large financial data sets, ideally tick data
- Experience/knowledge of market microstructure
- Strong analytical and modelling skills
- Familiar with Machine Learning methods applied to finance
- Fluent in Python, knowledge of q/KDB a strong plus
- Fluent in English
- Organized, self-motivated with excellent communication skills
- Team oriented you are able to be the link between quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people
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