Australian Catholic University Career Directory Profiles

My role as a Quant Trader is to research, monitor and improve new and existing trading strategies.

I really enjoy the level of collaboration and teamwork that I have in my role – since working here I’ve done projects with almost every team.

The best part about working at Optiver is the teamwork and the collaboration between the different teams in the company.

I honestly had so much fun learning from, and working with, other employees at Akuna. I also made friends with some amazing interns and juniors. I have never met a group of people who are so ambitious and competitive, yet so supportive of each other.

I manage the day-to-day operation of a trading strategy and look to analyse the performance of the strategy and seek to expand and develop it into the future.

There is rarely a perfect trade or a right answer in most situations I face, but sometimes opportunities arise where I am able to utilize all of my training and experience to make a split-second decision that could result in a big payout.