Quantitative Trading Associate (Fintech)

TL;DR

Quantitative Trading Associate (Fintech): Supports and enhances quantitative trading operations, combining real-time trading oversight, process automation, and cross-team collaboration. Focus on maintaining monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerts, and resolving issues with internal teams and external counterparties.

Location: Hong Kong

Company

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors.

What you will do

• Oversee quantitative trading activity during market hours, monitoring strategy performance and execution quality.
• Maintain and enhance monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerts to support safe, scalable trading operations.
• Coordinate and lead incident response, trade and position reconciliations, and issue resolution with internal teams and external counterparties.
• Support portfolio operations using data-driven and automated workflows.
• Collaborate with portfolio managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to improve processes and systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in the financial industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with Linux-based environments.
• High attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Interest in taking on increasing levels of oversight and supervisory responsibility in a regulated trading environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals.
• Teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared.
• Provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.
• Encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.