Junior Quantitative Risk Analyst

Responsibilities

• Work within a small Risk team alongside Developers and Analysts to build efficient protections around trading activities
• Collaborate with Developers to improve risk infrastructure, including implementing risk measures and automated reporting
• Work directly inside Akuna’s highly abstract and automated computational framework
• Develop new methods to quantify risk and performance measures using market and historical data
• Assist in setting, testing, and monitoring internal, exchange, and third-party trading system and positional limits

Requirements

• Degree in a quantitative field or evidence of strong mathematical and quantitative skills
• Finance experience or foundational knowledge of options theory
• Programming experience, specifically with Python
• Strong numerical problem-solving and programming skills
• Ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of SQL

About the Company

Akuna Capital is an innovative proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. We focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, and data-driven solutions to provide liquidity through low-latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models.