Options Quant Support Analyst in Sydney

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you'll love contributing to CMC Markets' company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that's growing with you through global expansion and product offerings. We are looking for an Quantitative Support Analyst to join our Quants team.

This is a hands on, desk-facing technical support role sitting between the Options traders, Quants, Business Operations and Technology. The role provides functional support for the Options trading system and related front office workflows, investigates day to day issues, and enhances tactical Python scripts and operational tools used by the desk. You will support business as usual processes, automate repetitive tasks and elevate larger development work where appropriate.

Support the trading desk and quantitative team in UK from a Python coding perspective. Understand how systems are performing, working in the trading system. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Quantitative Analyst to build practical exposure to derivatives, trading and market making technology. You will also be working closely with our Quantitative Strategies department.

Why You'll Like Working Here

• Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market – $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together; that's why we've made the decision to work five days in the office.
• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday.
• Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone, whether you're into fitness, pizza-making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What You'll Be Working On

• Design, implement and monitor quantitative trading strategies.
• Design, model, code and report on quantitative research using Python.
• Analyse technical indicators and conduct correlation analysis.
• Provide desk facing functional and technical support.
• Investigate and help resolve trading system, workflow, configuration, data and user issues, escalating where appropriate.
• Support for the Options trading system and related Derivatives workflows.
• Liaise with Technology and Trading teams to explain, implement and debug trading strategies on trading platform.
• Develop, maintain and enhance tactical Python scripts, utilities and support tools used by the desk and the Quants team.
• Back test and optimise trading strategies and system.
• Support business as usual processes, including application checks, issue triage, incident follow ups, release validation and post release support.
• Make controlled bug fixes and small enhancements to existing Python scripts and operational code under guidance from the Options Quants team.
• Automate repetitive support tasks and improve operation.
• Gather requirements from Front Office users and Business Operations and help shape practical workflow improvements.
• Understand the trading floor environment and the need to respond quickly to issues that can cause business outages.
• Create maintenance, support and reporting tools relevant to the product area as appropriate.
• Work closely with Options traders, Quants, Business Operations and Technology, including London based stakeholders.

What Will Help You Be Successful?

• A degree in quantitative finance, mathematics, computer science or equivalent disciplines.
• Experience in front office support with trading application support, production support, technical business analysis or a technical support role within financial markets.
• Solid mathematical understanding of basic time series analysis (Linear regression, generalized linear regression, ARCH/GARCH process), stochastic process (wiener process) and statistics.
• Must have experience working across trading systems and related technology platforms.
• Strong Python scripting skills, with the ability to read, debug, adapt and enhance existing scripts and operational tools.
• Strong functional understanding of trading systems and workflows.
• Experience in supporting a trading system in a prior role, coupled with Python and quantitative skills.
• Good quantitative and research skills.

The things we live by CMC Markets is powered by our people.

Founded in 1989 with a vision to make financial markets more accessible, CMC Markets has grown into a FTSE 250 global multi-asset financial services firm, serving retail, professional and institutional clients worldwide. As our business has evolved, so have our capabilities. Alongside our direct-to-consumer offering, we provide technology and execution services to major banks and financial institutions, enabling our partners to access new markets and serve their clients through CMC's technology.

We continue to invest in the future of financial services, expanding our multi-asset capabilities, scaling our global partnerships and developing new technologies that will shape how people access and interact with financial markets. Our people are central to this continued growth. As CMC enters its next phase, we're investing in the talent and ideas that will help us innovate, scale and deliver for our clients and partners.