About the Role
We are seeking intellectually curious individuals to combine data, technology, and market insight to solve complex client challenges. This role operates at the intersection of electronic trading, market structure, data science, and client strategy, partnering directly with clients, traders, and product teams to analyze and optimize trading outcomes, develop innovative execution solutions, conduct market microstructure research, and generate insights that influence client behavior and product development. It is a highly visible role combining quantitative analysis, client engagement, and thought leadership, offering the opportunity to shape how clients navigate increasingly complex global markets.
Responsibilities
- Analyze trading performance across multiple benchmarks and flows, identifying opportunities to improve execution quality and reduce transaction costs.
- Partner with clients through regular reviews and strategic consultations to understand trading objectives, evaluate outcomes, and deliver actionable recommendations.
- Design, test, and present bespoke execution and algorithmic trading solutions based on rigorous analysis of client flow and market behavior.
- Conduct market microstructure and execution research to better understand liquidity dynamics, price formation, venue behavior, and trading costs.
- Generate high-impact insights on trading activity, market structure developments, and regulatory changes, delivering these through client meetings, publications, and thought leadership.
- Collaborate with traders, quants, technologists, and product teams to develop new analytics, methodologies, and trading capabilities.
- Enhance the team's analytics platform, leveraging large-scale datasets to create innovative tools, visualizations, and client solutions.
Requirements
- Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Strong programming experience in one or more of Python, kdb+/q, SQL, or R.
- Excellent analytical and statistical skills, with a passion for extracting insights from large and complex datasets.
- Strong curiosity about financial markets, trading behavior, and market structure.
- Excellent attention to detail combined with creative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex analytical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable working independently while also collaborating across trading, sales, and technology teams.
Skills
- Python
- kdb+/q
- SQL
- R
- Data visualization tools such as Tableau
- Machine learning
- Predictive analytics
- Advanced statistical techniques
- Electronic trading
- Execution algorithms
- Transaction cost analysis
- Market structure
- Financial asset classes
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Up to Director
Education Level
- Degree in a quantitative discipline
Benefits
- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover
- 26-weeks paid maternity leave
- 16-weeks paid paternity leave
- Inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers
- 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs
- 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
- Ability to change your core benefits
- Option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances
- Access to a wellbeing account
- Travel insurance
- Critical illness cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline
- Virtual GP services
- Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood
- Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area
About the Company
- At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.
- One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
- Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
- Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
- Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.
- We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.
