Job Description
Flow Traders is looking for entrepreneurial, competitive and analytical talent to join our Trading department as an Intern. What better way to find out if a career in (Quantitative) Trading is something for you, than by experiencing it yourself as a Trading Intern?
You will get a 360-degree view of our role in the financial markets, how our Traders seize arbitrage opportunities, and how they work together as a team to optimize and improve their desk. The internship starts 1st of July 2021 and will last for 6 weeks. Housing will be provided!
This Trading internship is about immersing yourself in financial markets and experience trading from up close. You do not need to have a financial background; we will teach you all you need to know. Experience with a scientific programming language or excel is an advantage though. Working closely with Traders and Quantitative Researchers, you will add value by working on real trading projects. You will solve problems, create new tools and/or design new strategies. You will test your project in a trading simulation.
Intern benefits:
- Get a chance to experience the fast-paced Trading Environment.
- Work together and learn from the best of the industry.
- Enjoy our lunch and snacks.
- Participate in workout classes in our in-house gym.
- Celebrate our wins with the Flow team in our in-house bar.
- Opportunity to get a full-time position after your internship!
Requirements:
- Graduating end of 2021 or in 2022 with a University Degree, preferably in Mathematics, Econometrics, Engineering, Finance or related
- Experience with a scientific programming language ( e.g. Python / MATLAB / R or similar) or Excel;
- Competitive, innovative & creative personality with excellent mental arithmetic skills;
- Capability to reason logically and deliver under pressure;
- Ability to spot opportunities and the assertiveness to seize them.
Recruitment process
Flow Traders recruits on-campus at several universities in the Netherlands, UK, France and Germany. Please check our events calendar on our website to find out if we are hosting an event at your university. It is highly recommend to attend one of our presentations!
- An online behavioral traits assessment
- Numerical test
- Motivational & technical interview
- Final round interview: case study
As we are unable to invite you over to our office, we would like to give you a virtual office tour !
This is a full time internship. The internship is only open for students living in Europe. We do not provide visa sponsorship for the internship.
If you do not receive a confirmation email after you applied on our website, please contact careers.europe@flowtraders.com.
Flow Traders
Offices: Amsterdam (headquarters), New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Cluj
Number of employees: 500+
Positions: Graduate Trader and Trading Intern
Flow Traders is a principal trading firm founded in 2004. We are a leading global technology-enabled liquidity provider, specialized in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Flow Traders is at the intersection of finance, cutting-edge technology and scientific research. We are able to grow our organization further, thereby ensuring that our trading desks in Europe, the Americas and Asia provide liquidity across all major exchanges, globally, 24 hours a day. Financial markets have rapidly shifted from trading in the pit to algorithmic trading, and our business model has made us an entrepreneurial and competitive firm in the FinTech space. We use our principal technology platform to quote bid and ask prices in thousands of ETP listings. We are also active in other asset classes such as bonds, FX, cryptocurrencies and similar financial products. On top of that, we provide liquidity to institutional counterparties off-exchange across all regions!
Flow Traders stays ahead of the competition by focusing on technology and niche competencies in markets where every second counts. This requires access to the best information and the ability to respond instantly. To achieve this, our team of software developers works in partnership with experienced traders to identify and execute tomorrow's strategies, making Flow a daily pioneer in professional trading.
Team effort
In order to maximize our performance and facilitate our international growth, Flow Traders heavily invest in our employees. The backbone of our success is the collection of creative doers, thinkers, and above all, believers who form our company. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.
Training & Development
Because of the specific nature of the work-environment, we do not expect you to plunge headfirst into your new job. Instead, you will start by following in a three months intensive in-house training program that covers all the intricate details of the trading processes. As a member of an informal team, you will then gradually take on more responsibilities, start monitoring markets and only then start making split-second portfolio adjustments that are at the heart of our success. From trading to devising tactics, and from contributing to new tools to implementing actual programs: you help shape our trading strategies.
What we offer
Flow Traders offers you an exciting job and lots of opportunities within the most dynamic of environments with an excellent compensation package. We provide our employees with the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. On top of that, Flow Traders provides free breakfast, lunch, and snacks. We have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. Every year we go on a company trip and have the best Christmas party!
At Flow Traders we work in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment where each day brings complex challenges. We are a technology company, operating in a financial environment and use our principal technology platform to quote bid and ask prices in thousands of ETP listings and similar financial products. We are always looking for new talent in the following areas (https://www.flowtraders.com/careers/jobs) :
- Graduate Trader;
- Trading Intern;
- Quantitative Researcher;
- Graduate Software Developer.
Business Course & In-house days
Want to have a look first inside our company in Amsterdam? That is possible! We are organizing several in house days and our Business Course for you to gain insight into the world of trading! Make sure to apply on our company website. Hope to see you soon! https://www.flowtraders.com/businesscourse#panel-114
If you would like to know more feel free to contact Florentine van Lingen (Recruiter) fvanlingen@flowtraders.com