9 months ago
London, United KingdomEntry Level / Mid Level
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain bespoke e-trading tools and solutions for FX traders.
- Provide real-time Front Office support for urgent trading and production issues.
- Build and enhance analytics, pricing tools, automation scripts, and workflow solutions using Python.
- Work with FX traders to gather requirements and deliver technical solutions.
- Support and improve e-trading platforms, execution workflows, and trade lifecycle processes.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in live trading environments.
- Prioritize tasks according to urgency and business impact while managing stakeholder expectations.
- Collaborate with internal technology, quant, operations, risk, and global trading teams, as well as occasional external stakeholders.
- Produce clear reporting and updates for team and management structures.
Requirements
- Strong Python development skills are mandatory, along with VBA experience.
- Solid understanding of fixed-income markets, swaps, bonds, other asset classes, and trading processes.
- Experience working in a Front Office or e-trading environment.
- Strong mathematical and analytical ability with a background suited to quantitative disciplines such as quantitative finance, financial engineering, mathematics, physics, or similar.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and support time-critical systems in high-pressure environments.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with traders and senior stakeholders.
- A proactive, resilient, delivery-focused approach with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- An MSc or equivalent advanced degree in a quantitative field such as quantitative finance, mathematics, engineering, physics, computer science, or similar is highly desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid working in London with three days per week in the office.
- Opportunity to work directly with an FX trading desk in a leading financial services and investment banking environment.
- Global interaction with trading and technology teams.
About Talan
Talan is a Paris‑headquartered, privately held consulting and technology group that delivers data, AI, and IT services to large enterprises. It combines management consulting with systems integration, software engineering, and production support across sectors such as banking and financial services, energy, transport, retail, and healthcare. The firm operates internationally and supports clients’ end‑to‑end change programs, from CRM and agile transformations to architecture, application development, and run.