Quant Analytics - Prime Services - Selby Jennings

An exciting opportunity to join a leading front-office equities trading desk within a high-impact analytics and trading environment. This role sits directly alongside traders, delivering advanced analytics, execution insights, and scalable tooling that drive data-led decision making and enhance client outcomes.

You will play a critical role in shaping the desk's analytical capabilities-building real-time and post-trade analytics, developing client-facing insights, and partnering closely across trading, sales, and technology. This is a highly visible position combining technical expertise, market understanding, and commercial impact.

• Design, build, and maintain front-office analytics and decision-support tools used directly by the trading desk
• Develop real-time and post-trade analytics focused on execution quality, liquidity, and market behaviour
• Work closely with traders to translate business requirements into scalable, production-grade solutions
• Enhance the desk's ability to monitor and optimise execution performance through data-driven insights

• Build advanced analytics to assess execution quality, transaction costs, and venue performance
• Analyse trading flow, liquidity dynamics, and market structure to inform trading strategy
• Deliver insights that support optimal routing, order placement, and trading decision-making
• Continuously improve methodologies for performance attribution and benchmarking

• Own the design and delivery of reporting frameworks, including management information and operational analytics
• Develop client-facing reports covering execution analytics, transparency, and performance metrics
• Build scalable data pipelines and automation frameworks to streamline reporting and enhance efficiency
• Lead development of cost and activity-based analytics, including pricing and invoicing support

• Act as a hands-on analytics specialist, applying strong programming skills to solve complex trading problems
• Leverage modern data science, machine learning, and AI techniques to enhance insight generation
• Drive innovation in analytics and tooling, introducing new approaches to improve trading outcomes
• Ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with front-office requirements

• Engage directly with clients to explain analytics outputs and provide actionable insights
• Support client discussions with clear, data-driven narratives
• Collaborate across trading, sales, product, technology, risk, and control functions
• Contribute to strengthening the overall value proposition through differentiated analytics offerings

• Strong experience in front-office analytics, trading tools, or electronic trading environments (preferably equities/DMA)
• Proficiency in Python and/or SQL with the ability to build production-quality solutions
• Good understanding of cash equities market structure and execution workflows
• Experience working closely with traders or on a trading desk
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex analytics into clear insights

• Experience within Prime Brokerage or Sponsored Access environments
• Exposure to client-facing analytics or reporting solutions
• Familiarity with transaction cost analysis (TCA), execution benchmarking, or flow analytics
• Experience applying machine learning or AI techniques in a trading or analytics context

• Commercial mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced front-office environment
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Ability to balance technical delivery with business impact