Quant Strategist - Treasury

Quantitative Strategist – Treasury

The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Quant Strat to join our Treasury team. The role will focus on the design and implementation of enhanced transfer pricing, P&L attribution, financing engines, treasury optimization frameworks and margin replication across multiple asset classes that span the Global Treasury business at Schonfeld.

What you’ll do 

The role will be responsible for developing the central algorithms that drive the pricing of resources, the allocation and  the optimization of balances across multiple components of the Treasury landscape. You will also be responsible for designing new and enhancing existing frameworks within treasury that would help us optimize profitability and improve scalability. The outputs of the work will connect to existing technology infrastructure and drive economics and decision making of the Treasury team and wider Schonfeld management as related to allocation of resources for investment decisions.

The ideal candidate will enjoy interpreting business concepts to code complex algorithms, and working with the business and technology partners to implement the results.

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• Strong understanding of equity finance products including; stock loan, repo, synthetic financing and margin management
• Prior experience working in Prime Brokerage, Treasury, or Securities Lending technology teams
• Strong programming experience across variety of platforms such as Python, Java and C++ for building/optimizing trading, financing and margin systems
• Expertise in data modelling, strong SQL skills and experience handling large financial datasets
• Familiarity with modern UI frameworks (React, Angular) or visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau) for building dashboards
• Proven track record to own and drive end-to-end delivery of complex systems from scoping to implementation
• Expertise in data modelling, strong SQL skills and experience handling large financial datasets
• Familiarity with modern UI frameworks (React, Angular) and/or visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau) for building dashboards
• Experience being the liaison between technology & business teams, aligning solutions with business goals
• Experience implementing and maintenaning business systems for information and data management
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrate excellent numeracy and analytical skills

We’d love if you had:

• Background working alongside financing trading desks
• Familiarity with margin models
• Experience with low latency systems
• Experience with KDB / Q

Our Culture

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses.

Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $175,000 and $250,000. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.

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