Quantitative Analyst

About 3S Capital:

3S Capital is a proprietary value focused investment firm based out of Dubai, specializing in event driven equity strategies and regional private equity.

We pride ourselves in fostering an environment of creative independent thinking, collective idea generation and sharing amongst our employees with a focus on individual career development.

Job Profile:

Position: Quantitative Analyst

Job description:

1 Automate the firms’ various existing strategies to highlight investment ideas when they meet our specific criteria.

2. Build a database of global securities to monitor and identify arbitrage opportunities.

3. Research and develop quantitative investment strategies that the firm may implement.

The Candidate must have:

1) Minimum of 2 to 3 years of experience trading derivatives.

2) A financial engineering degree with a minimum US college GPA of 3.3 or UK minimum 2.2 or equivalent with maximum 2 years of work experience. Graduates with degrees in mathematics or statistics are also encouraged to apply.

3) Must have advanced programming skills such as Excel VBA Programming, C++, Matlab or Java.

4) A passion for financial markets/investing and technology.

5) Evidence of projects that exhibit independent thinking.

6) A desire to learn, be self-motivated and good at multi-tasking.

7) An outgoing personality with positive energy.

Advantages of this job with 3S Capital:

1) The Candidate will be part of a very small team, working closely with the Principal and Senior Analysts rather than joining a large buy side firm with its rules and bureaucracy. This will allow the candidate to focus more on their own self development in the investing field.

2) 3S Capital aims to provide an atmosphere of relaxed intensity, focused on allowing employees to feel comfortable and at ease in the work place in order to achieve maximum productivity.

3) Subject to clearly exhibiting intelligence, energy and most important of all, integrity, over an extended period of time, the candidate will be included in a performance based incentive scheme defined by very clear goals and objectives while maintaining an alignment of interest with the principal and his vision. This will allow the candidate to control their own destiny as opposed to having someone decide it.

All applications must be forwarded via email only to applications@3scapital.ae