Maven Securities
2022 Graduate Trader Program - London (Jul 2022)
Australia, United Kingdom, London
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- Competitive
- 5 vacancies
- Apply by 7 Oct 2021
- Start date 31 Jul 2022 - 30 Aug 2022
As a Trader Graduate, you will complete an intensive 12-month training program run by our most talented traders, including theory training, education sessions, mock trading, project work and programming courses. We will teach you the skills to trade with the latest available tools. You will rotate through a number of desks before you find your ideal team, and we aim to give you responsibility for the profit and loss of your book as soon as you are ready.
We are looking for final year applicants from any quantitative background with a competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics to join our Graduate Trader Program.
What weโre looking for
- Outstanding numeracy
- Competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics
- Curiosity to learn with a keen interest in financial markets
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to solve problems creatively
- Strong communication skills and drive to work collaboratively
- A final year undergraduate student or a final year masters student (on track for 2.1 / 3.2 GPA in your first degree)
- Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, VBA, SQL, R, C++ or C#
What we offer:
- Opportunity to execute live trades within 3 months of starting
- Direct exposure and graduate training from industry leaders
- The upside of start-up without the associated risks
- Informal, friendly and highly rewarding culture with a relaxed dress code and frequent social events.
- Fast growing global firm where your work will have a significant impact
Please only apply to one of our Intern or Graduate programs, as we are only able to consider your application for one program.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Started with a mixture of group training exercises, classroom sessions and simulation training during grad training. Now I trade live on the market throughout the day and are in control of my own book which I am responsible for. Spend time during the day thinking about ways to optimize my setup and improve my strategy via analysis.
Day to day I am trading, which involves writing, monitoring and adjusting parameters to trading software while monitoring live trades and news. After trading closes, I write software or analyse data, usually in python.
day-to-day operations of the desk, project work that aims to improve our setup
About the employer
Maven Securities
4.7
100 - 500 employees
Trading
Maven implements both fundamental and quantitative trading & market making strategies across global markets, utilising only the groupโs capital.
Pros and cons of working at Maven Securities
Pros
Stimulating, meritocratic, intense
Flat Hierarchy, causal dress code, caring culture
Friendly environment, everyone very willing to teach and help out. Every day is different depending on news.
Small, young, meritocratic, lots of room for progression, fun coworkers
Lots of really smart people who are always happy to teach you. Challenging job, tons to learn. Company growing really fast, so opportunities to genuinely contribute. Great pay + perks.
The intellectual challenge. Constantly being pushed to learn new ideas which makes everyday interesting and stimulating. Doing it as part of the grad team has been really good fun as you all work together towards the same goals.
Cons
Intensity isn't for everyone
Fast-paced, which means you have to make sure you are keeping up
Early mornings, quite periods interspersed with busy so not as regular flow compared to other jobs.
Long hours (although not relative to say investment banking) and you have to stay focused all day (not a lot of downtime)
It's hard work and intellectually difficult, which can be tiring.