Trading Analyst
Swish Analytics
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Philippines
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About the role
- Monitor live sports markets and market activity in real time across a range of sports and market types
- Support the calibration and refinement of prices using market signals, statistical models, competitor benchmarking, and event-driven information
- Help improve pricing quality through the analysis of market behaviour, price sensitivity, liquidity patterns, and reaction speed to new information
- Contribute to the development, testing, and refinement of quantitative models by applying your understanding of live market dynamics and pricing behaviour
- Own and manage real-time trading risk, including exposure monitoring, liability controls, and disciplined decision-making across concurrent events
- Collaborate with engineering on trading and pricing infrastructure, including API integrations, automated monitoring, alerting, anomaly detection, and execution tooling
- Work closely with Sports Trading teams to interpret breaking news, lineups, injuries, team news, and other event-specific developments to ensure timely and accurate price updates
- Identify model discrepancies, edge cases, and structural inefficiencies in pricing workflows, escalating and documenting findings for Data Science and Data Engineering teams
- Help evaluate market opportunities, prioritise resources across sports and competitions, and improve operational processes as the trading function scales
- Detect sharp or informative market activity and ensure useful signals are fed back into Swish’s proprietary models and pricing systems
- Communicate effectively with internal Sports Trading teams responsible for maintaining and improving our core sportsbook pricing models
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative or analytical discipline (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or similar), or equivalent practical experience
- Strong grounding in probability, statistics, and expected value, with the ability to reason clearly about fair price, uncertainty, and risk
- Hands-on experience in sports trading, sports betting, exchange-style environments, market-making, quantitative trading, or other closely related domains where fast price formation and disciplined execution matter
- Strong understanding of sports betting fundamentals, including odds formats (decimal, fractional, American), implied probability conversion, expected value, and closing line value
- Demonstrated ability to make high-quality decisions under time pressure with incomplete information during live events
- Comfortable working autonomously across global event schedules, including weekends and major tournament periods
- Fluent in English, written and spoken, with clear communication skills in a distributed and asynchronous team environment.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
decision-makingcommunicationautonomytime managementanalytical thinking