Here you can find all of the Opportunities we are currently working on at Executive Search Consultants, INC. Please click on the one of the links or email your resume's in Word format to DeborahKolb@ESCfinance.com to apply for a position. Include the position title for which you are applying in the Subject line of your Email. Even if you do not see a position specifically tailored to your background, we encourage you to still send over your resume as we get new searches all the time! Thank You
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*Trader/Strategist Roles *Developer Roles *Quantitative Researchers
*Entry Level/New PhD's *Risk Positions *Portfolio Manager
**SYSTEMATIC QUANTITATIVE ANALYST**
Leading investment firm seeks top talent to join their equity research team to analyze market inefficiencies and developing, testing, and implementing new trading strategies in domestic and international markets.
The Equity Research team is looking for an individual to work on High Frequency trading Strategies and Long term Equity Market effects relating to Valuation, Accruals, Insider Trading, Earnings Surprises, Momentum, or other potentially exploitable inefficiencies.
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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PhD from a Top School (Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering)
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Substantial programming experience in C++, C#, or Java
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Excellent Communication Skills and Teamwork Important
Our client offers a dynamic work environment and top compensation Packages
**Systematic Trading Modeler**
major
Seeking a Strong Systematic Trading Model Builder
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
- An Advanced Quantitative Degree from a
- 2-7 years experience creating models
- Experience in Futures (FX, Equity, Indices, Fixed Income and Commodities) or spot FX
- Strong preference for experience with short-term or high-frequency trading systems
- Excellent Communication Skills Important
Our client offers a dynamic work environment and top compensation Packages
**High Frequency Execution Quantitative Strategist**
major hedge fund seeks a driven, talented, statistical savvy individual to join their high frequency execution team in their electronic trading group.
Seeking a Quantitative Strategist to work on High Frequency Execution Analysis in a Major Successful Firm.
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
- An Advanced Quantitative Degree from a
- Recent PhD with 1-3 years experience doing Quantitative Research (finance or data intensive field)
- Experience Analyzing Real Data in a Quantitatively precise manner
- Techniques such as (Bayesian Analysis, Exploratory, Hidden Markov Models/Kalman Filters, Likelihood)
- Techniques such as (Bayesian Analysis, Exploratory, Hidden Markov Models/Kalman Filters, Likelihood)
- Strong Coding and Computer Skills (C++ or Java)
- Excellent Communication Skills Important
Our client offers a dynamic work environment and top compensation Packages
**Sr MBS Quantitative Analyst**
Major Global Bank seeks an outstanding quantitative strategist/to Lead a small Team
Seeking a hands on Strategist / Modeler
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
You will lead a team in building, implementing, & maintaining loan-level credit and
prepayment models for all MBS products.Experience generating creative ideas.The
Group invests in both credit & prepayment sensitive assets. This will include
investments in residential / Commercial mortgage products as well as other consumer based asset classes. The form of investment will encompass both the securities markets & the loan markets. You will manage one or two quants & be fully integrated into a trading team. 5 + years of hands-on experience developing successful quantitative models. An exceptional academic background and strong programming skills . PhD - Finance - Math - Physics
Our client offers a dynamic work environment and top compensation Packages
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**Experienced Quantitative High Frequency
Trader/Portfolio Manager**
Major hedge fund seeks an outstanding quantitative strategist/trader with a profitable high frequency strategy.
Seeking a High Frequency Portfolio Manager with a Strategy that has been trading for a min of 3 mos. Must show Consistent Profitablity of Trading Strategies Scalable to at least $50m with a High Sharpe Ratio
We are open to All Markets and Asset Class Categories
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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High Frequency Strategy that is consistently profitable
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Excellent Return on Capital
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Proven Track Record
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Quantitative Degree from a Leading University
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Strong Programming Skills
Our client offers a dynamic work environment and top compensation Packages
High Frequency Execution Quant Strategist
major proprietary trading team seeks top talent to further the development of their high frequency electronic trading execution
A talented Junior Quantitative Strategist to do Analysis and Idea Generation on Execution Algorithms. Seeking an individual experienced with High Frequency Data- both the Infrastructure side (how to handle huge datasets) and the Analysis side (how to analyze huge datasets.) An organized, motivated individual to help the firm improve the way it executes all of it's trades.
*High Frequency Strategist*
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks top-talent for their high frequency team
Looking for motivated individuals with successful models in the HFT space, looking to join a Great Team at a very Successful, Solid fund East Coast/West Coast
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Strong Interpersonal Skills
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Of particular interest are Futures Strategies
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Programming strongly in Java or C++ preferred, combined with solid theoretical skills.
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Statistical packages also desired
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MS/PhD- Math, Physics, or CS from a
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Fixed Income Strategist
major top-tier investment bank seeks a talented strategist to work on their fixed income business
Looking for a motivated individual to work on Risk Management, Pricing and Modeling Analytics in the structured credit team within the Fixed Income business.
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
- 3 years experience in pricing/modeling structured credit OR new PhD with a stellar academic background
- Advanced Graduate Degree from a
- Strong Quantitative Skills
- Substantial Programming Experience
- Advanced Graduate Degree from a
**Credit Risk Management Modeler**
Leading investment firm seeks top talent within credit risk management for development of models and methodology. Experience working with and presenting
to a regulatory audience is essential.
The Credit Risk Management and Advisory Team is seeking a candidate to join its Credit Strategies Group. The team is responsible for developing quantitative pricing and risk management models for counterparty credit risk. Credit Risk projects include development of pricing and simulation models for interest rate, equities, commodities, FX, and credit derivatives. Credit risk projects also will focus on capital simulation models, econometric prediction of default and loss given default, hedging of derivative credit risk, and the risk-return tradeoff in a credit risky portfolio of assets.
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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An Advanced Quantitative Degree from a Top School (Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering)
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Knowledge of derivative pricing and financial economics.
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Substantial programming experience in C++, C#, or Java
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Experience working with and presenting to a regulatory audience is an advantage
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Excellent Communication Skills and Teamwork Important
Our client offers a dynamic work environment and top compensation Packages
High Frequency Developer
A major hedge fund seeks an experienced server-side developer to work within their high frequency trading team
Seeking a Developer who has had Experience Working in a Fast Paced, Entrepreneurial Environment.
Areas of work will include FIX Connectivity, Market Data Management, Risk Management Systems, STP (trade booking/capture) Systems, etc.
Candidate Must Have:
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A BS or Advanced Degree in CS, Physics, Statistics, or Finance from a Leading University
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Ability to program competently program with Oracle, Java, and C++ on very large Datasets in highly multithreaded Unix and Windows environments
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Experience Network Programming and High Performance Computing
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System/Network Administration skills are a BIG PLUS
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major top tier hedge fund seeks top talent to further the overseeing and hands-on development of their trading execution platform
We are looking for a GURU level developer who has experience building High-Frequency Execution Systems from the group up (preferably more than once)
Additionally, the following skill set is required:
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Solid C/C++ (able to understand and modify advanced patterns)
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Solid Java Programming Knowledge
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Infrastructure Design Experience (threading concepts, data persistence, sockets, etc)
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Solid Connectivity know-how (FIX, feed-handlers, etc)
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Execution Experience- Must have knowledge working with an execution system and order management
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Basic Database know-how
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Solid Communication Skills
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Attention to Detail (Take charge of ensuring trading system is functioning correctly at all times)
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API Experience
Senior Quant Developer for Quantitative Arbitrage
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks a top talented senior quantitative developer to join their team!
Looking for a motivated Top-Talented Leader to head the development of some of the Proprietary Quantitative Arbitrage Strategies
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
- Finance, Applied Math, Statistics, CS or related field from a
- Strong programming skills- C++
- Experience working in Quantitative Arbitrage or Systematic Trading Strategies in High Frequency Equities, Futures, Options or other liquid Instruments
- Strong programming skills- C++
Quantitative Trading Strategy Developer
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks a top talented Trading strategy developer to join their team
Looking for a Driven Top-Talented Individual who seeks new challenges, Developing Automated Trading Strategies. Our Client will provide all the necessary tools (capital, technology, data, initial ideas, highest quality executions, etc.) to build profitable trading strategies. Since this position is directly responsible for generating profits, part of the profits are shared with YOU who helped create them.
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
- MS or PhD in Finance, Applied Math, Statistics, CS or related field from a
- 2+ years experience with a MAJOR object oriented programming language (C++/Java/C# preferred)
- 2+ years with Unix based systems
- The drive to be the best and outperform other players in the industry
- Exceptional Analytical skills
- Self-motivated, innovative, independent, with strong problem-solving and excellent analytical skills
- 2+ years experience with a MAJOR object oriented programming language (C++/Java/C# preferred)
Quantitative Software Developer
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks a top talented quantitative software developer to join their team
Seeking Top-Talented Quantitative Software Developers to utilize their advanced Engineering disciplines to help create the Tools and Engines used by our world-class Researchers and Quantitative Analysts.
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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3 or more years of professional experience in Automated Trading
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At minimum a BS in CS, Applied Mathematics, Hard Science from a
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Strong Numerical Programing Skills
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Comprehension of Scripting Languages—Python, Unix shell, PERL
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Experience with SQL and database concepts as used in Microsoft SQLServer
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Background developing large-scale, real-time and distributed applications
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Infrastructure Design Experience—Developing High-Performance, Multi-Threaded applications
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The drive to be the best and outperform other players in the industry
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Exceptional Analytical skills
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Self-motivated, innovative, independent, with strong problem-solving and excellent analytical skills
** An Advanced degree in Computer Science and Experience with NAG, Splus, MATLAB, SAS and Mathematica is a plus!!
Quantitative Research Associate
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks a driven, detail-oriented, quantitative research associate to join them
Seeking a Well-Organized, Resourceful, Proficient Quantitative Research Associate to join Alpha-Forecasting Team. The Candidate will utilize their Research skills to Generate and Refine Investment Strategies by Coordinating the Analytical and Operational steps needed to Establish a Robust Trading Company. As well as Analyze Large Datasets to Develop intuitions and hypothesis about predicting Equity Returns
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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A BS or Advanced Degree in CS, Physics, Statistics, or Finance from a
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1 to 3 years of experience in Investment Banking or Similar Research
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Strong Programming Skills (Acquired through either Academic or Experience)
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Some experience with Corporate Finance, Accounting, and Trading
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An Enthusiasm for Finance, Quantitative Investment, Challenges
** Prior Exposure to European Markets is a Plus!!!
Entry Level Quantitative Research Associate
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks a driven, detail-oriented, Entry level quantitative research associate to join them
Seeking a Well-Organized, Resourceful, Proficient Quantitative Research Associate to join Alpha-Forecasting Team. The Candidate will utilize their Research skills to Generate and Refine Investment Strategies by Coordinating the Analytical and Operational steps needed to Establish a Robust Trading Company. As well as Analyze Large Datasets to Develop intuitions and hypothesis about predicting Equity Returns
Candidate Must Have:
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A BS or Advanced Degree in CS, Physics, Statistics, or Finance from a
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Intermediate to Strong Programming Skills (Acquired through either Academic or Experience)
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Some experience with Corporate Finance, Accounting, and Trading
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An Enthusiasm for Finance, Quantitative Investment, Challenges
Fixed Income Strategist
major top-tier investment bank seeks a talented strategist to work on their fixed income business
Looking for a motivated individual to work on Risk Management, Pricing and Modeling Analytics in the structured credit team within the Fixed Income business.
Candidate Must Have:
- PhD with a stellar academic background-- High GPA's and Test Scores from a Leading University
- Strong Programming Ability
- Driven, Motivated, Detail-Oriented, and Innovative
Risk Analyst
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks an organized, analytical, risk professional to join their risk management team
Seeking an Organized, Quantitative, Analytical individual with Great Communication Skills to Design, Implement, and Operate Systems that Quantify Risks associated with a Broad Range of the Firm’s Global Trading Strategies.
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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Minimum of a Masters in a Quantitative/Financial study from a
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Minimum 2 years experience in a similar Risk Management role
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Knowledge of Unix/Linux and Perl (or another shell programming/scripting language)
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Professional Experience with Object Oriented Programming is a PLUS!
Equity Derivatives Risk Manager
multi-billion dollar hedge fund seeks an organized, analytical, risk professional with a strong understanding of derivatives to join their risk management team
Seeking an Organized, Quantitative, Analytical individual with Great Communication Skills to assist the Chief Risk Officer in Evaluating and Extenuating Firm-Wide Risk as well as Work on an array of Derivative-focused Risk and Portfolio Management Ventures
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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Minimum of a Masters in a Quantitative/Financial study from a
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Minimum 3 years experience in a similar Risk Management role
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Skilled in MS Office suites
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Experience with Unix/Linux and Perl (or another shell programming/scripting language) OR Object Oriented Programming
**Experienced Quantitative High Frequency
Trader/Portfolio Manager**
Major hedge fund seeks an outstanding quantitative strategist/trader with a profitable high frequency strategy.
Seeking a High Frequency Portfolio Manager with a Strategy that has been trading for a min of 3 mos. Must show Consistent Profitablity of Trading Strategies Scalable to at least $50m with a High Sharpe Ratio
We are open to All Markets and Asset Class Categories
The Ideal Candidate will possess:
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High Frequency Strategy that is consistently profitable
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Excellent Return on Capital
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Proven Track Record
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Quantitative Degree from a Leading University
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Strong Programming Skills
Our client offers a dynamic work environment and top compensation Packages