Shift Trader

Company: SQUAREPOINT CAPITAL
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will oversee 24/7 trading supervision and risk management as part of a Central Trading & Monitoring team. You will monitor real-time exposures, respond to incidents, and support continuous trading operations across regions. You’ll build and refine tools to automate monitoring and streamline workflows. This is a fast-paced, cross-functional role that shapes how we manage risk and execute trades around the clock. You will be a central point of contact for market risk and operations during shifts.

Responsibilities

  • Real-time risk monitoring and alerting across trading activities; escalate incidents as needed
  • Execute hedging actions per established procedures and monitor P&L and risk during market holidays
  • Oversee production monitoring of systematic strategies; restart processes and respond to alerts
  • Assist internal teams with issue escalation and resolution
  • Perform ad-hoc hedging and booking tasks; support pilots and special initiatives
  • Monitor market-making activities and exposures; take action on issues as scale increases
  • Improve post-execution analysis tools and strive for best execution
  • Support trading of new products as launched (e.g., power and gas markets)
  • Oversee lifecycle tasks like position rolls, option expirations, and corporate actions; respond rapidly to risk limit breaches

Key requirements

  • Bachelor in a quantitative or related field
  • Programming proficiency in Python; KDB is a plus
  • Strong verbal and written communication for global collaboration
  • Strong sense of urgency and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • strong communication
  • collaboration across global teams
  • ability to work under pressure
  • Python
  • KDB (plus)
  • real-time risk monitoring

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Posted: September 30th, 2026