Quantitative Trader/Researcher developing and implementing quantitative models for trading strategies in financial markets. Join a dynamic team at Z1 Tech in Vancouver.
About the role
- Graduate trader executing client FX and interest-rate hedges at Validus, a hedging-strategy and derivatives-execution firm. Monitoring portfolios, pricing trades and coordinating with clients, advisers and banks.
Responsibilities
- Price FX Spot, Forward, Swap and Option transactions across multiple execution channels
- Monitor client hedge portfolios using proprietary RiskView technology
- Prepare market commentary and insights on FX and interest rate markets
- Prepare and validate trade requests for execution by senior traders
- Ensure accurate trade capture and maintain transaction record integrity
- Monitor FX and interest rate markets to identify opportunities and risks relevant to client hedging programmes
- Ensure transactions satisfy the best execution framework and internal trading governance
- Manage banking-counterparty relationships to maintain competitive pricing, execution quality and market access
- Support continuous improvement of trading processes
- Undertake ad hoc analytical and strategic projects
- Work with Risk Advisory, clients and banking counterparties to translate hedging strategies into executable transactions and maintain alignment with investment and risk-management objectives
- Use TradeView and RiskView platforms for transaction workflow, hedge maturity management, transaction cost analysis, post-trade monitoring and portfolio oversight
Requirements
- Graduate-level role; no specific educational credential stated
- Price FX Spot, Forward, Swap and Option transactions
- Monitor client hedge portfolios using RiskView
- Prepare and validate trade requests for senior-trader execution
- Maintain accurate trade capture and transaction records
- Apply best execution principles and internal trading governance
- Monitor FX and interest rate markets
- Manage banking-counterparty relationships and assess pricing competitiveness, credit appetite and execution quality
- Support analytical, strategic and process-improvement projects
- Work effectively with Risk Advisory, clients and global banking counterparties
Benefits
- Base salary expected between $55,000 and $60,000 per year at commencement
- Performance bonus linked to agreed success criteria, paid semi-annually
- 20 days’ holiday, increasing to 25 with tenure, plus bank holidays
- Private health insurance including dental, optical and mental health
- Travel insurance
- Learning & development allowance and support for professional qualifications
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