Vice President - Global QPS Analytics (Trading Desk)
Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
Desk Analytics & Tooling
- 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
Execution & Market Analytics
- 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
Reporting & Data Automation
- 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
Data Science, Coding & Innovation
- 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
Client Engagement & Stakeholder Management
- 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
Skills & Experience
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- 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
Competencies & Attributes
- 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
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