Trading Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines.

📋 Description

• Oversee live sports markets and their activity in real-time across various sports and market categories.

• Assist in the calibration and enhancement of pricing by utilizing market signals, statistical models, competitor analysis, and event-driven data.

• Contribute to enhancing pricing quality through the examination of market behavior, price sensitivity, liquidity trends, and response times to new information.

• Aid in the creation, testing, and optimization of quantitative models by leveraging your knowledge of live market dynamics and pricing behavior.

• Take ownership of real-time trading risk, which includes monitoring exposure, controlling liabilities, and making disciplined decisions during concurrent events.

• Work together with engineering on trading and pricing infrastructure, covering aspects such as API integrations, automated monitoring, alerting, anomaly detection, and execution tools.

• Collaborate closely with Sports Trading teams to analyze breaking news, lineups, injuries, team updates, and other event-specific changes to guarantee timely and precise price adjustments.

• Detect model inconsistencies, edge cases, and structural inefficiencies in pricing workflows, while escalating and documenting findings for Data Science and Data Engineering teams.

• Assist in evaluating market opportunities, prioritizing resources across sports and competitions, and enhancing operational processes as the trading function grows.

• Identify sharp or informative market activities and ensure that valuable signals are integrated back into Swish’s proprietary models and pricing systems.

• Effectively communicate with internal Sports Trading teams that are responsible for maintaining and improving our core sportsbook pricing models.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative or analytical field (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or a related area), or equivalent practical experience.

• A solid foundation in probability, statistics, and expected value, with the capability to reason clearly about fair pricing, uncertainty, and risk.

• Practical experience in sports trading, sports betting, exchange-style settings, market-making, quantitative trading, or other closely related fields where rapid price formation and disciplined execution are crucial.

• A comprehensive understanding of sports betting fundamentals, including odds formats (decimal, fractional, American), implied probability conversion, expected value, and closing line value.

• Proven ability to make high-quality decisions under time constraints with incomplete information during live events.

• Comfortable working independently across global event schedules, including weekends and major tournament periods.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken, with strong communication skills in a distributed and asynchronous team environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Professional development opportunities.