Equity and Derivative Strategist

Our client, an Investment Bank is looking for an Equity and Derivatives Strategist for a 6 month contract to be based in London.

As a Strategist you will be reporting into the European Head of Equity and Derivative Strategy. You will be responsible to help generate profitable flow derivative and cross asset business by preparing data analysis for senior strategists for the creation of trade ideas to be marketed internally to sales and externally to hedge fund and institutional clients.

Key Deliverable:

- Quantitative data analysis and back testing
- Idea generation for single stocks and index derivatives
- Responsible for data mining, data analysis and data processing.
- Excel related work eg creating reports, pivot tables, macros and comple formulas
- VBA and R programming

Required Skills:

- Strong Equity or Derivatives experience
- Strong Excel skills and data quantative skills
- Strong Quantative background with excel and data analysis background
- High quality and commercial English writing and speaking skills
- Synthesise large amounts of fundamental, economic and quantitative data into commercial themes, trade ideas and written reports
- Must be analytical in nature
- Team player

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