Job description
SIG is a sophisticated and influential trading firm, active on the world’s major securities and derivatives exchanges. Our European headquarters is based in Dublin, where we employ over 450 people in Trading, Quantitative Research & Technology across a range of trading strategies, including Exchange Traded Funds, Commodities, Options, Fixed Income, Equity Derivatives and Convertible Bonds.
Nellie Analytics – an affiliate of SIG – is focused on geo-political and sports analytics. Due to our continued growth, we are continually looking for candidates with an analytical mindsight and good decision making to join our trading team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an early-stage initiative and to help shape new product development as the business opportunity evolves.
This is a trading role in which you will be making quick decisions to trade a wide swath of sports and political products using in house models and technology.
Tasks will include:
- Trading mainly American sports – NFL, NBA, MLB, Tennis, NCAAF, NCAAB, Football (Soccer)
- Running and maintaining strategies to trade pregame and in-game to maximize expectancy (and other business objectives)
- Analysing and recapping past decision making to improve future trading decisions
- Noting interesting trading and market dynamics to suggest areas of research for the quant team
- Brainstorming useful strategies and features to improve future trading
What we're looking for
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline such as Maths, Stats, CS, Physics, Economics etc.
- Interest in some subset of - NFL, NBA, NCAAF, NCAAM, Soccer, Tennis, or Baseball
- Exceptional quantitative, logical reasoning, and analytical skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to be flexible with hours and schedule
- Knowledge of data manipulation libraries such as Pandas/Numpy is a plus
- Ability to recap and analyse thought processes, trading situations, and market dynamics for future analysis
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Quick learner
SIG does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or search firms. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of SIG and no fee will be paid.
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