Trader

IMC•Chicago, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

IMC Americas, Inc. has multiple openings for Trader (REQ#4461664101) in Chicago, IL and Brooklyn, NY. IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Mathematics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Physics, or similarly quantitative and mathematical field.
One (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related position.
Experience in developing, maintaining, and enhancing mathematical models, strategies, and trading system components for quantitative proprietary trading in collaboration with developers.
Experience operating trading strategies through a range of market circumstances, having a thorough understanding of risk at any point in time.
Experience rolling out and verifying new features on trading strategies.
Experience managing a trading firm's risk exposure.
Experience using Python and python coding libraries, including Pandas, NumPy, and SciPy to assist in quantitative analysis.
Experience trading products and navigating compliance regulations in trading markets.
FINRA Certifications: (1) SIE and (2) Series 57.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and enhance mathematical models, strategies, and trading system components for quantitative proprietary trading in collaboration with developers (10%).
Independently design and implement changes to trading models, strategies, and systems from end-to-end, including conceiving of proposed changes, creating a testing plan, and performing tests, and implementing changes (15%).
Analyze, interpret, and model financial, economic, and industry data to optimize trading and maximize revenue generation using existing internal tools (15%).
Create custom analysis tools for use at the firm to perform research beyond available analysis tools (5%).
Prepare and present high-quality financial analysis and reports following IMC global guidelines (15%).
Perform daily operational tasks on the trading desk, ensuring systems are running correctly and escalating as needed to designated contacts (15%).
Supervise and mentor graduate traders and interns (10%).
Train graduate traders through the firm's traineeship (5%).
Contributing to planning and prioritization decisions of future projects on their trading desk (5%).
Monitoring and managing a trading firm's risk exposure (5%).