2027 Management Associate Programme - GFM001, GFM Foreign Exchange - Quant (Trading)

'Business Function As an Asian leader in treasury operations, DBS Global Financial Markets (GFM) extends a broad range of capabilities ranging from trading, structuring and sales in foreign exchange, interest rates, money market, credit, equity, commodities, bonds, derivatives and securities. We are a key player in various regional markets and actively make market, structure, originate, innovate and distribute a wide range of products. Our extensive network in Asia and our growing Asian focused franchises helps expand our product outreach and deepen product penetration. Altogether, our specialists are working across our expanding branch network to offer a full range of products and exceptional levels of services to clients investing and hedging in the global markets. DBS Global Financial Markets provides total solutions to serve DBS clients' hedging and investment needs with a regional emphasis. We have a strong record in providing innovative wealth management solutions to our individual investors. We are a leader in SGD and regional products with an excellent, customer-driven research capability and with cutting-edge risk management technology and systems.'

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement automated trading strategies that utilize mathematical or AI/ML models for electronic pricing and auto-hedging
• Work with diverse datasets, e.g. market data, client, flows, news etc, to extract meaningful insights
• Rigorously backtest trading ideas & risk management strategies
• Building tools to enhance analytics and backtesting capabilities
• Work with the development team to architect & develop low-latency trading systems
• Work with FX traders to simplify and automate market making processes

Requirements

• A strong academic background with a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, or a related field
• Demonstrated interest in financial markets and a keen desire to pursue a career in quantitative trading
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with a foundation in financial modelling and an eagerness to learn market dynamics and trading strategies
• Basic programming skills in Python, R, Q, Java or other relevant languages, with the potential to apply these to trading and data analysis
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and the capacity to make informed decisions under pressure, with a willingness to develop these skills in a real-world trading environment
• Understanding of system networks, latency management, solutioning and trouble shooting
• A proactive and curious mindset, with a desire to continuously learn and contribute to both trading and structuring initiatives
• Candidates must be able to work 100% in office
• Knowledge of AI/ML is a bonus

Location

DBS Asia Central

Job

Programme Hire

Schedule

Regular

Employee Status

Full time