Headquartered in Singapore with presence in the United States and Indonesia, Straits Financial serves as the financial services arm of the CWT Group, a global leading provider of integrated logistics and financial services. We provide a fully-integrated service for our clients to access the financial and commodity derivative markets and will continue to expand into key financial and commodity markets.

We are looking for a suitable candidate who is highly skilled and experienced in Structured Products & Portfolio Management. The person should also be proficient in Algorithm trading to develop and implement market making & options strategies with inter-market arbitrages in mind. This position will be covering all aspects of our Singapore office as well as the Group.

This position reports to the Vice President, Derivatives, Sales & Dealing. 

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy development including Data Analysis, Model Building, Backtest Evaluation

• Quantitative trading with Algorithm Writing, Capital Management and Risk Control

• Manual trading for NLT Trading, Options etc.

• Any other duties as assigned

Requirements

You should possess the following:

• Master’s qualification in Finance and Investment

• At least 8 years of working experience in inter-Market Commodity Arbitrages

• Prior experience working or dealing with Investment Club &/or Fund

• Proven track record in Algorithm Trading with solid performance of Sharpe Ratio

• Strong NLT performance

• Proficient in MS Suite, Bloomberg, Reuters Eikon, iWind

• More than 10 years’ experience in C/C#/C++/Fortran/MATLAB/Python/VBA programming

• Demonstrated maturity and leadership skills

• Bilingual, proficient in English and Chinese language (spoken and written) is an advantage as the job may require liaising with Chinese-speaking counterparties