Python Job: Intern Quantitative Analyst in Risk Management

About BFJ

Running a tight but highly effective and efficient ship, Sigma has successfully provided comprehensive risk management consulting services to top-tier financial derivatives brokers. The proprietary development of the SaaS has now been up running since 2018, of which the toolkit featured in multi-asset, multi-venue (with Smart Order Routing as work in progress), low latency, and big data processing and analytics, Sigma facilitated its clients' extremely fast growth given the heated competition and breathtakingly rapid change of regulatory environment.

Flat management, result-oriented, agile development, and attention to details are taking Sigma to the next level this year, with an aim at institutional collaboration across the industry, even more R&D-intensive effort to upgrade the system, perfecting the SOP, and empower its clients for larger opportunity while on the other hand, be a good keeper at fencing the hostile, identifying the threat, and act in no time for optimal performance.

Key Responsibilities:

We are urgently seeking a motivated and talent risk analyst in internship program to cover these responsibilities:

- Monitor price feed, quality of liquidity, system operation status during trading hours;

- Record, reconcile, and audit orders and positions to maintain, update and rectify internal logs;

- Constantly liaise with front -/ back - office to config, update, or modify the system;

- Constantly liaise with clients, other service providers, and all other stakeholders for operation plan, system solution proposal, and scenario analysis and risk mitigation plan, if needed;

- Engage in communication with investors, traders, account holders, and all other stakeholders regarding the trading activity, order book, equity, and balances, etc.;

- Record, investigate, report, and advise on any inquiry, error, complaint or dispute on behalf of clients;

- Data process, analysis, and series of reports' preparation, both regular and ad-hoc;

- Potential business development and customer service in ACT related areas;

Key Requirements:

- Related education/qualification (Finance, Business, Risk Management, Project Management, Accounting, Business Analysis, Data Analytics, etc.)

- Self-disciplined, strong time-management skill, attention to detail while willing and able to think outside the box;

- Preferred previous experience working in the industry - Retail / Wholesale DMA/CFD/other financial derivative brokers, or Sales and Trading services;

- MUST: Excel/VBA, MS Office Package; Python/SQL/PostgreSql; Math and Statistics;

- MERITS: i. Trading Experience; ii. Brokerage, Platform, and Market Maker related system admin and operation;; iii. R, Stata, and other database languages;

- High level of communication skills, English, Mandarin;

- Keen and eager to learn about trading, market and enterprise risk analysis, as well as technology development, information system and agile development associated with the demand of its clients.

What you can find with us:

· Highly efficient and effective teamwork vibe;

· Energetic and passionate about data and technology;

· Flat management, result-oriented;

· Practical intense trading, executing, and delivering experience and real case exposure in financial data analytics;

· CANNOT-MISS: Pathway to FT Offer with Base + Bonus Package

Trainee / Internship Program Specs:

1. Title: Intern Quantitative Analyst in Risk Management

2. Team: Risk - Quant

3. Term: 3 months or min 60 Business Days

4. Performance Assessment Interval: Monthly

5. Full-time Offer Available: YES (Graduate Only)

6. Renumeration / Salary: NO

7. Allowance:

1st Month: Nil;

2nd Month: $30 / Day;

3rd Month: $30 / Day;

8. Language Requirement: English and Mandarin

9. Reference Letter: Up on Request;

10. Internship Certificate: YES;

11. Early Termination: YES, if failed in monthly performance assessment.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary, Internship

Salary: From $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee mentoring program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Free drinks
• Free food
• Professional development assistance
• Profit sharing
• Travel reimbursement
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Flexible hours
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Annual bonus
• Bonus
• Commission
• Performance bonus

COVID-19 considerations:
Mask in the public area, medical-grade alcohol