Akuna Capital

Akuna Capital

Junior Quantitative Risk Analyst

Chicago · Junior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
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About the role

  • About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation.
  • This is a great opportunity for someone looking to grow and evolve with our firm!

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Developers to improve our risk infrastructure, implementing risk measures and automated reporting
  • Develop new ways to quantify risk and performance measures, working with market and historical data

Requirements

  • Programming experience (e.g., Python); SQL is preferred but not required
  • A degree in a quantitative field, or evidence of mathematical and quantitative skill

Skills

  • They opened the firm's first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world - Chicago.
  • Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London and Singapore.

Compensation

  • In accordance with Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum base salary starts at $90,000.

Company info

  • We are looking for a motivated and talented individual to join our growing Risk Department.
  • This role is part of a major investment in measuring and controlling market and execution risks where you will work on new development projects at the intersection of trading, options theory and automation.
  • Work as a part of a small Risk team and alongside Developers and Analysts to build efficient and smart protections around Akuna's trading

This listing is sourced directly from Akuna Capital's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.