Quantitative Trader

Company Description
**You’re talented and adaptable. That’s why you’ll fit in.**

As well as mining and processing many of the essential raw materials that enable, support and enhance modern life, Anglo American through its Marketing arm, is a global trading and marketing business, managing significant volume in the physical and paper commodity markets including base metals, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and freight, as well as adjacent products, such as energy and scrap steel. We offer innovative solutions to meet our customers’ specific challenges. This includes physical products, logistics and technical support, as well as pricing, financing and risk management solutions.

**Job Description**:
**PURPOSE**

The Quantitative Trader will work in the Quantitative Trading team within the Trading & Origination CMT. The Trader will play an integral role in the two primary functions of the team, Systematic Trading and Quantitative Solutions. With respect to Systematic Trading, the individual will help lead the growth strategy and implementation of the systematic suite of models, further diversifying across strategy styles and commodity underlyings. Quantitative Solutions responsibilities will include derivative structuring and ongoing risk management of a commodity options portfolio.

**TYPICAL TASKS**

**_ Systematic Trading _**

**Strategy**:

- Help lead overall direction of Systematic Trading
- Input to business planning, revenue targets and cost base
- Calibrate the requirement of risk budget to achieve business plan

**Trading Strategy Development**:

- Independent research & development of new systematic trading strategies
- Help implement optimised portfolio allocation layer to allocate risk budget across strategies and underlyings
- Development of Visualisations/Dashboards for Model Interpretability
- Work with Digital Hive to produce spin-off quantitative research products that are driven by the QT systematic models
- Ad-hoc Quantitative Trade Ideas generation for dissemination across all CMTs

**Analysis**:

- Ongoing calibration of model input parameters
- Implement forward simulation of model runs, interpret simulation outputs and translate into required trades to execute
- Calibrate and interpret diversified VaR and simulated drawdown analysis

**Trading**:

- Manual execution of trades to reflect systematic model’s outputs
- Ongoing risk management of open positions
- Use commodity derivative trading experience to devise execution strategies that find optimal liquidity windows and which minimise transaction costs

**_ Quantitative Solutions_**

**Structuring**:

- Work with CMTs and S&O teams to devise innovative structured Materials Solutions for clients
- Model and price vanilla and exotic payoffs
- Assist with Business specification and testing of internal risk platform enhancements

**Trading**:

- Hedging and ongoing rebalancing of cross-commodity portfolio to monetise value from structured transactions
- Discretionary overlay of Systematic strategies, leveraging views via options markets, contributing towards team revenue targets.

**Quant Research product**:

- Develop quantitative research products (e.g. dashboards, updates, trade ideas) for consumption by wider Marketing traders
- Speak on Trader and Market Intelligence calls when required concerning market developments from a quantitative perspective

**Teamwork**:

- Work with the rest of the Quantitative Trading team on shared goals of portfolio strategy diversification, revenue targets, and quantitative research product development that can be shared across marketing
- Continuous dialog with CMT physical and financial traders to ensure complete understanding of market price and liquidity dynamics
- Develop and maintain relationships across CMTs and support functions
- Coach and mentor junior team members

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree (desirable)
- Post-graduate qualification in a mathematical discipline (desirable). Computer Science or Machine Learning would be beneficial.

**Other Knowledge**
- Understanding and experience of mining industry and landscape.
- Significant experience in trading (essential)
- Prior experience of managing non-linear portfolios (essential)
- Experience pricing and executing structured transactions including embedded derivatives.
- Knowledge of multiple commodity markets (desirable).
- Ability to articulate Trading strategies to a broader audience.
- Significant experience in the development and trading of systematic strategies, and their allocation/optimisation within a portfolio.
- Strong Python programming skills (essential)
- Working knowledge of C++ (desirable) for performance optimisation on production code

Additional Information
**Who we are**

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest tec