Digital Assets Trader, eFX & DA Trading
Infos sur l'emploi
- Date de publication :24 janvier 2025
- Taux d'activité :100%
- Type de contrat :Durée indéterminée
- Lieu de travail :Gland
Building the bank of tomorrow takes more than skills.
It means combining our differences to imagine, discuss, code, develop, test, learn… and celebrate every step together. Share our vibes? Join Swissquote to unleash your potential.
We are the Swiss Leader in Online Banking and we provide trading, investing and banking services to+500’000 clients, through our performant and secured digital platforms.
Our +1000 employees work in a flexible way, without dress code and in multicultural teams.
By having a huge impact on the industry, they are growing their skills portfolio and boosting their career in a fast-pace environment.
We are all in at Swissquote. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to join our team and contribute to our shared success.
Are you all in? Don’t be shy, apply!
As a Digital Assets Trader you will join the growing eFX & DA Trading team, which serves the bank’s electronic trading business as principal counterparty in both OTC venues and CLOBs and as operator of SQX: Swissquote’s own cryptocurrency exchange.
As a team we:
- contribute to the bank’s commercial goals by managing the electronic risk book (proprietary internalization system)
- provision SPOT liquidity such that clients’ execution needs and the bank’s policies and regulatory requirements are sustainably met
- develop and maintain a gainful network of trading counterparties
- ensure SQX serves as an attractive and compliant marketplace for clients and market-makers
- drive the bank’s ongoing investments in its proprietary trading and risk systems in collaboration with software engineers and IT
- shape the quantitative research initiatives relevant to our business scope
- assure excellent product quality and participate in its continuous improvement
- facilitate new business initiatives in collaboration with various internal teams
We are committed to supporting your growth, helping you become a reliable and autonomous team member, strengthening the team’s capacity for its 24/7 crypto trading duties, and actively contributing to its success. Specifically:
- stay on top of our risk PnL and inventory and act according to procedures e.g. adjust system configuration
- qualify client flow, provision liquidity accordingly and be a reference point for clients, Sales and other internal teams
- assess sourced liquidity and act to optimize it e.g. proactively liaise with LPs, adjust systematic hedging configuration etc.
- operate SQX
- use internal tools and your own quantitative capabilities to deliver on reporting, draw data-driven conclusions and suggest actions
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ensure that systems perform as expected and consult IT and software engineers when necessary
As you grow professionally, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the business, as well as on the quantitative and tech projects, where our team acts as a key stakeholder.
Qualifications
- Previous trading experience in a sell-side electronic trading firm/bank
- In-depth understanding of the relationship between risk inventory, liquidity, spreads, volatility, credit, volumes etc., the resulting economics by the interaction between liquidity providers and consumers and other relevant market microstructure aspects
- Knowledgeable about digital assets and genuinely interested
- Quantitative and coding skills applicable to high frequency financial data is a strong plus
- Demonstrated passion for automation
- Able to multi-task under pressure while maintaining focus on accuracy
- Available to deliver on time
- Self-driven, curious, structured, attention to detail, team-oriented
- Excellent communication skills and able to develop relationships with interdisciplinary people
- Fluent in English
- Degree in Finance or a STEM discipline from top ranked university
