Execution Trader

In this role, you will support a quantitative hedge fund’s High-Touch execution desk by integrating new trading flows and optimizing market-wide execution. You will work closely with strategists, traders, and external platforms to enhance execution processes and onboarding of new products. You’ll analyze market microstructures and assess transaction costs to drive smarter trading decisions. This is a fast-paced, interdisciplinary role that blends trading, quantitative analytics, and technology to scale a high-touch, cross-asset execution ecosystem. The opportunity offers hands-on impact in a globally traded, state-of-the-art environment.

• onsite role in Central London
• discretionary bonus

• Collaborate with strategists to onboard new flows into the High-Touch execution pipeline
• Collect market intelligence and analyze market microstructures
• Review transaction costs and recommend trading improvements with traders and quantitative developers
• Liaise with dealers and external platforms (Tradeweb, Bloomberg, etc.)
• Promote and enforce best trading practices on the High-Touch desk

• 1–4 years of experience in a High-Touch execution role
• Proficiency in Python and/or KDB
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Familiarity with transaction cost analysis (TCA)
• Experience with project management tools and methodologies
• Git/Jupyter skills are a plus
• Ability to work closely with trading desks and understand detailed market structures

• Strong analytical mindset
• Good communicational skills
• Collaborative mindset
• Python
• KDB
• Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)