IT & trading recruitment team

Quanta’s dedicated IT & trading recruitment team works within the commodity trading and financial sectors.

Key contacts

Alex McCrudden

Alex McCrudden

About the team

Quanta’s IT & trading recruitment team is led by Alex McCrudden.

Alex McCrudden – senior recruiter. Alex is a senior recruiter whose main responsibilities include leading the trading support team. Alex originally joined Quanta in 2010 as a senior recruiter within the commodities trading team. His focus includes recruiting for major energy/commodity trading and investment banking companies across the UK and Europe. Alex specialises in candidate management and networking.

Our IT & trading background

From solid foundations in the London jobs and contracting market, Quanta’s IT & trading team has expanded the scope of its operations to successfully service many key financial centres in Europe – including Dusseldorf, Geneva and Zurich. From there Quanta has extended the range of its operations to encompass more of Europe, Asia, South Africa and Australasia. Today, Quanta supplies some of the biggest names in energy and commodity trading worldwide, with particular focus on solutions such as OpenLink Endur® and Sungard Align®.

Typical roles filled:

  • AVS scripters
  • Business analysts
  • E-commerce project managers
  • Endur project managers
  • Endur test analysts
  • Market data managers/analysts/developers
  • Oil/gas/energy analysts
  • Pricing analysts
  • Project managers and PMOs
  • Quant developers
  • Risk analysts
  • Trade floor support professionals
  • Trading infrastructure specialists

Other specialist trading systems/technologies:

  • Calypso
  • Endur
  • Findur
  • Kondor
  • Murex
  • Summit
  • and many other proprietary systems.

Quanta also provides tailored recruitment solutions to many other related trading functions, such as:

  • Credit risk
  • Derivatives trading
  • Equities trading
  • Investment/fund management
  • Market data
  • Market risk
  • Quantitative analysis