Volatility Arbitrage Trading Researcher M/F

Company

Adoc Talent Management is looking for a Volatility Arbitrage Trading Researcher M/F for its client, a very innovative investment management company with a start-up spirit, offering a wide range of alternative strategies, specialized in equity derivatives: dividend futures and options on stocks and indices. They have the willingness to explore new businesses and are always seeking new opportunities in ever-changing financial markets.

Position

Managing the Volatility Fund is a central component of the company's operations, and volatility arbitrage stands as one of its key activities. This fund targets absolute returns and generates alpha with quantitative arbitrage strategies such as arbitrage of the correlation between the main index and the sector index, identification of entry point over volatility/skew, and cross-geography volatility arbitrage.

The team is looking for a Volatility Arbitrage Trading Researcher to help build and implement new trading strategies.

Your main objective is to identify investment opportunities using statistical methods and analyzing large data sets. You will develop and backtest quantitative investment and arbitrage strategies, implement trading strategies, and participate in writing research papers.

In this role, the Volatility Arbitrage Trading Researcher will be in constant interaction and discussion with the fund managers who will provide him/her a detailed roadmap. You will also interact closely with the traders and participate in the arbitrage desk.

The position is to be filled in Paris as soon as possible, with the possibility of partial Remote Work.

Profile

You hold a Ph.D. or a PhD plus post-doctoral fellowship, with a specialization in applied mathematics, statistics, or finance. Your thesis explored quantitative financial products, particularly oriented toward options and derivatives.

You possess strong analytical and quantitative skills. Skills in IT are essential, including coding, statistical data analysis, and the utilization of large databases. Coding proficiency (object oriented languages such as C, C++ or C#) is crucial for this position.

A passion for Arbitrage Strategies is highly desirable, and experience with Bloomberg would be advantageous.

Fluent in English, highly motivated, proactive, and creative, you can perform within a dynamic and challenging work environment.

It’s a unique opportunity to join a rising hedge fund and closely work with portfolio managers while working on complex and systematic strategies.

If you are eager to contribute to the growth of a Fintech and thrive in a challenging and innovative work environment, we invite you to submit your application (CV, list of publications, motivations, salary expectations) to Adoc Talent Management.

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Last updated on Nov 21, 2023