Junior Trader

Junior Trader

Application Deadline: 23 April 2025

Department: Investment

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Description

Antipodes Partners is a diversified multi-asset manager with A$20bn in assets under management, with product offerings spanning across Global and Australian equities, Global listed infrastructure and Credit. 

Antipodes are seeking a Graduate level hire with a passion for financial markets and investing to join the Antipodes group within the QMAT (Quant & Macro, Alt-Data, and Trading) team as a junior trader/investment analyst. Relevant industry experience is desirable but not essential. The role will be London based.

Strong academics in degrees relating to Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Science, Physics, are necessary.

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing firm and be mentored by senior leaders, propelling your career in funds management.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities:
• Trading: 
o Working within the Trading team, you will be responsible for trade admin, transacting in global markets across a range of investment securities including equities, FX, and derivatives. Your primary focus will be on European and US markets but you will develop an understanding of global markets.
o Respond to queries and liaise with the investment operations team.
o Work closely with the trading and investment teams on execution strategy, best execution, and process improvement. 
o Engage with trading counterparties in managing order flow, best execution and overall relationship management.
o Communicate portfolio and market colour, including market behaviours, price action, and alternative views, to the broader investment team.

• Investment Process Enhancement: 
o Using your Excel and coding knowledge, you will maintain and upgrade the existing Excel based toolkit to cater for the changing business needs within the Trading team.

• Quant and Macro: 
o Working within the Quant and Macro team, you will be involved in the analysis of quantitative data sets and macro data to assist the team form their macro views.  

• Collaboration and Communication: 
o Collaborate with portfolio managers, investment analysts, and operations team to achieve investment process related objectives.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Skills required:
• Excel knowledge which covers VBA and Power Query (essential)
• SQL (essential), R (essential) and Python (desirable)
• Strong and confident communicator (essential)
• Market data platform experience, ie. Bloomberg/Factset (desirable)

About you:
• You are problem solving oriented with a focus on business outcomes. You will strive to find the best solution within the expected timeframe. 
• Fundamental understanding of, and keen interest in, global markets.
• You will be capable of interact and supporting at the CIO/PM level, being able to translate rapid demands into action in a timely manner.
• Ability to think critically, remain calm under pressure, and “hasten slowly”. 
• You have exceptional attention to detail.
• You have a flair for creativity as it relates to finding solutions to business needs.
• You have a willingness to learn new coding languages as needed, with an ability to learn them in a short timeframe.
• You are a natural numbers detective. You thrive working with large datasets, seeking insights/relationships in an otherwise meaningless mass of data. You have flexibility in work hours to assist in covering global markets. 
• You can effectively triage and prioritise competing demands while managing expectations.