GRIT - Desk Quantitative Strategist

About the group:

The Trading Quantitative Strategist operates within a front-office, client-aligned environment, directly supporting trading desks with high-impact quantitative expertise. This role is pivotal in driving revenue through real-time pricing, risk management, and strategic decision-making and tightly linked to the commercial success of the trading desk. The position reports to senior desk strats and interacts with other strats and traders directly. GSA is committed to an employee-orientated, high performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, quality, continuous improvement, and the recruitment and on-going development of a superior workplace.

Key responsibilities:

• Business requirement scoping and rationalization
• Business application design and implementation
• Regular meeting and discussions with other strats in the projects
• Manage the essential documentation for the development
• Build pricing knowledges and/or AI capabilities in real business use cases
• Gain understanding to typical front office activities and daily critical business processes

Skills required:

• Fresh graduates who have graduated in 2024/2025/2026 from Universities, Polytechnics, Institutes of Technical Education (ITE), or other Educational Institutions (e.g. private universities and overseas institutions); or Graduated earlier from above institutions and completed National Service in 2024/2025/2026.
• No prior work experience and must be ready to commit to a full-time traineeship
• Strong coding skills with experience in languages like R, Python and working knowledge of AI tools