Junior Quantitative Risk Analyst
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You build protections around trading, improve risk infrastructure, implement risk measures and automated reporting, and work within an automated computational framework. You quantify risk and performance using market and historical data and help set, test, and monitor trading system and positional limits.
Requirements
- Finance experience or knowledge of options theory
- Programming experience such as Python
- SQL preferred but not required
- Numerical problem-solving skills
- Programming skills
- Degree in a quantitative field or evidence of mathematical and quantitative skill
- Ability to respond quickly and accurately to changing market conditions
Responsibilities
- Build efficient protections around trading
- Collaborate with developers to improve risk infrastructure
- Implement risk measures
- Implement automated reporting
- Work within an automated computational framework
- Develop ways to quantify risk and performance measures
- Use market and historical data
- Assist in setting trading system and positional limits
- Test trading system and positional limits
- Monitor trading system and positional limits
Benefits
- Employer-paid medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement contributions
- Paid time off
- Discretionary performance bonus
