Working Student/Internship Quantitative Trading Cost Analyst (f/m/d)

XTP is a specialist consultant focusing on transparency, cost, and risk. For more than 20 years we have helped institutional investors to get the most from their current investment set-up and enhance investment governance. We have a proven track record of increasing implementation efficiency in public and private market assets from clients across Europe and the USA.

We are a data-driven organisation with a highly experienced team of more than 50 senior industry specialists, quantitative analysts, and software engineers. Technology is a fundamental component of how we operate and underpins our ability to deliver superior outcomes.

XTP is building an international culture where our team feels empowered, responsible, and valued. We can offer you access to bright-minded people, the environment to develop your knowledge further, and a platform to make a difference in financial services in public and private markets.

Tasks

• Perform quantitative analysis on liquid asset portfolio (stocks, bonds, derivatives, …) of our institutional clients such as pension funds and (re)insurers.
• Create cost transparency by calculating, processing, and benchmarking of explicit and implicit trading and investment costs.
• Synthesize your results in presentations and hold those in front of our clients and their asset managers.
• Increase the net return of our clients’ liquid assets by improving cost efficiency based on the results of your analysis.
• Develop new quantitative models and software tools to enhance process automation and to improve the handling of large amounts of trading and market data.
• Grow with us and take over more project responsibilities.

Requirements

• Strong quantitative skills with a high affinity to numbers – you believe that data analytics are cool.
• Leading university background in mathematics, physics or finance.
• Interest in solving complex, quantitative problems.
• You consider precision as a principle, not as a burden.
• Self-driven, very well organized and results-oriented team player.
• Sophisticated in Excel and Power Point (not just finding the icons).
• Highly proficient in German and English.