If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you through global expansion and product offerings.

We are looking for a Quantitative Analyst to support our Quants team. This is a hands on, desk facing technical support role sitting between the Options traders, Quants, Business Operations and Technology. The role provides functional support for the Options trading system and related front-office workflows, investigates day to day issues, and builds or enhances tactical Python scripts and operational tools used by the desk.

It is not a trading role or a pure core development role; the successful candidate will support business as usual processes, automate repetitive tasks and escalate larger development work where appropriate.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Quant Support Analyst with 2 to 3 years’ experience to build practical exposure to derivatives and market making technology. You will also be working closely with our Quantitative Strategies department, based at our head office in the UK.

Why You’ll Like Working Here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

- Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
- $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market – $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
- Continuous learning: Our L&D; offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you’re always learning new skills.
- Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing.
- Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together; that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
- Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments,



and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone, whether you’re into fitness, pizza-making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What You’ll Be Working On

- Provide desk-facing functional and technical support for the Options trading system and related Derivatives workflows.
- Work closely with Options traders, Quants, Business Operations and Technology, including London-based stakeholders, with clear communication and escalation.
- Investigate and help resolve trading system, workflow, configuration, data and user issues, escalating where appropriate.
- Support business as usual processes, including application checks, issue triage, incident follow-up, release validation and post release support.
- Develop, maintain and enhance tactical Python scripts, utilities and support tools used by the desk and the Quants team.
- Make controlled bug fixes and small enhancements to existing Python scripts and operational code under guidance from the Options Quants team.
- Automate repetitive support tasks and improve operational robustness without taking ownership of core platform development.
- Assist with testing, documentation, support procedures, user guidance and runbooks.
- Gather requirements from Front Office users and Business Operations and help shape practical workflow improvements.
- Partner with Quants, Financial Engineering, Business Operations, Product Development and IT to ensure solutions meet business needs.
- Understand the trading floor environment and the need to respond quickly to issues that can cause business outages.
- Create maintenance, support and reporting tools relevant to the product area as appropriate.
- Maintain personal/professional development to meet changing role demands, including regulatory and legislative training.
- Ensure a positive approach to challenge and provide open and honest feedback.




- Occasional weekend work may be required for product releases or maintenance.
- Provide explicit, fair and consistent high-quality service to customers, clients and colleagues, presenting a professional and positive image of CMC Markets.
- Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.
- Undertake such other duties or training as reasonably required for this level of responsibility.

What Will Help You Be Successful? Essential

- A degree in quantitative finance, mathematics, computer science or equivalent disciplines.
- 2 to 3 years of experience in front-office support, trading application support, production support, technical business analysis or a desk facing technical support role within financial markets.
- Experience working across trading systems and related technology platforms.
- Strong Python scripting skills, with the ability to read, debug, adapt and enhance existing scripts and operational tools.
- Good functional understanding of trading systems, workflows

The things we live by CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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