Trading Quant

About the Position

Are you ready to be part of a team that drives transformation of the trading process - from client inflow to post-trade analysis? We are now looking for a curious Trading Quant that strives for data-driven decision-making, to enhance the measurability of the actions taken by traders and portfolio managers, and to enable our traders to better source liquidity and manage execution risk.

The role is a full-time position based in Købanhavn K, Denmark.

About our team

Meet the Trading Quants team. We add value by being change enablers that drive transformation of the investment process as part of an agile value stream where we identify business problems, define and implement solutions, to generate tangible value for our clients.

Our team is part of Nordea Asset Management, Global Trading. Within the investment management area, Global Trading, is responsible for order generation and trade execution on behalf of portfolio managers across asset classes. As a team, we homogenize data across asset classes, add structure and measurability to our investment processes, to unlock scale and quality throughout the organization.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

Responsibilities

• Engage with traders to solve their execution challenges by providing them with data, frameworks, and tools that improve the search for liquidity and highlights execution risks.
• Implement AI use cases leveraging our data models.
• Drive projects within a value stream, binding together business and technology, to ensure we deliver tangible outcomes for our clients.
• Ensure data-driven decision-making by expanding our Trading Data Model and its applications.
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders, and our technology providers.
• Extract data insights for client services and senior management on an ad-hoc basis.

Requirements

• A solid academic foundation e.g. a masters in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, etc.
• Experience with Python and SQL.
• An interest in asset management and financial markets.
• Fluent in English both verbal and written.

Nice to Have

• Skilled in building data models using e.g. data build tool (dbt).
• Hands-on experience implementing AI use cases, or a demonstrable enthusiasm for leveraging AI to drive innovation and efficiency.
• Experience with SimCorp Dimension and Snowflake.

We Offer

• A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.
• Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.
• Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together.

About the Company

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good. We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates. We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges. We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.