Garda is looking to hire an Analyst to join the Inflation Trading Desk in Geneva. The candidate will be supporting the senior portfolio manager and broader inflation team in exploring and analyzing investment ideas.

Position Responsibilities

• Develop a fundamental understanding of the inflation market and its main products including cash and derivative instruments
• Use qualitative and quantitative analysis to identify potential trading opportunities and assess the risk of existing strategies, which involves the development and maintenance of spreadsheets used to drive investment decisions
• Support the team’s research process, including data collection and analysis, prototyping, back testing, and performance monitoring
• Communicate opportunities to the Investment and Leadership teams

Qualifications & Desired Skills

• 1-2 years’ experience in a relevant role at a top tier bank or hedge fund
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in finance, economics, or a similar quantitative discipline
• Exceptional quantitative & programming skills (Python & SQL)
• Knowledge and interest in financial markets
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Critical thinking, strong attention to detail and independent problem solving skills
• Intellectual curiosity and motivation to innovate and improve
• Ability to work effectively in a high-energy, time sensitive team environment
• Ability and willingness to work unconventional hours

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IMC is a leading global trading firm operating at the intersection of technology, trading, and market structure. We believe compliance is most effective when embedded in the business providing insight, constructive challenge, and practical solutions. Our crypto business, headquartered in Zug, is a growing and strategically important part of IMC's global footprint, and we are building a world-class compliance function to support its continued expansion.

We are seeking an experienced Crypto Compliance Officer to take ownership of establishing and leading IMC's compliance framework for the Crypto business. This is a foundational and high-impact role for a compliance professional who combines deep regulatory expertise with genuine commercial instincts and a collaborative approach.

You will be the primary compliance partner to the Crypto business — advising on new initiatives, guiding geographic expansion, engaging with regulators and exchanges, and building a compliance program that can scale with the business. You will manage and develop a small team, including a Crypto Compliance Officer, and work closely with counterparts in the US, APAC, and across the European Compliance and AML functions.

Your Core Responsibilities

Framework design & governance

• Design, establish, and own the end-to-end compliance framework for IMC's Crypto business, covering market conduct, trade surveillance, and regulatory licensing requirements
• Develop and maintain all compliance policies, procedures, and controls specific to digital asset activities, ensuring alignment with CIMA
• Define governance structures including escalation pathways, board-level compliance reporting, and risk appetite frameworks
• Establish and manage the audit remediation plan, tracking findings through to resolution and reporting progress to senior stakeholders
• Build and lead a high-performing compliance team capable of supporting the business at scale

Strategic business partnering

• Act as the trusted compliance partner to the Crypto business, advising on new products, strategic business ventures, and growth initiatives from inception
• Provide clear, pragmatic, and commercially sound guidance on regulatory and market conduct matters, balancing risk management with business enablement

Your Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of compliance experience in financial services, with a minimum of 2 years in a senior role covering digital assets, crypto, or fintech
• Proven track record of building compliance frameworks from the ground up in a regulated financial institution
• Strong understanding of crypto-specific compliance challenges including blockchain analytics, travel rule implementation, AML transaction monitoring, and cross-border regulatory requirements
• Experience engaging directly with financial regulators and managing regulatory examinations
• Exposure to US and/or APAC regulatory environments is a strong advantage
• A collaborative, business-oriented mindset
• Strong leadership and team development skills
• Excellent judgment and the confidence to navigate ambiguous regulatory environments
• Clear, concise communication skills in English
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across jurisdictions in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to learn, grow, and help establish something genuinely new
• ACAMS or equivalent professional qualification preferred

What we offer

• A senior, high-visibility role at the heart of IMC's fastest-growing business
• The opportunity to build and shape a compliance function from the ground up
• Direct collaboration with global leadership across Trading, Technology, Legal, and Risk
• A high-performance, collaborative culture that values ownership and intellectual rigor

IMC is a leading global trading firm operating at the intersection of technology, trading, and market structure. We believe compliance is most effective when embedded in the business providing insight, constructive challenge, and practical solutions. Our crypto business, headquartered in Zug, is a growing and strategically important part of IMC's global footprint, and we are building a world-class compliance function to support its continued expansion.

We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Crypto Compliance Officer to join IMC's newly established Crypto Compliance team in Zug. Reporting directly to the Senior Crypto Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation of IMC's compliance program — translating policies into operational controls, running transaction monitoring and trade surveillance processes, and ensuring the business meets its regulatory obligations on an ongoing basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to get in early on building something from the ground up. You will work closely with the Senior Crypto Compliance Officer, as well as colleagues in the Amsterdam AML team, European Compliance leads, and counterparts in the US and APAC. We are looking for someone who is eager to learn, willing to roll up their sleeves, and genuinely excited about the compliance challenges that come with operating in the digital asset space.

Your Core Responsibilities

Transaction monitoring & trade surveillance

• Manage and oversee day-to-day transaction monitoring across IMC's crypto asset activities, identifying, investigating, and escalating unusual patterns or potential AML concerns in line with the Compliance framework
• Manage the trade surveillance alert workflow — reviewing, investigating, and resolving alerts in line with established procedures and escalating material issues to the European Monitoring and Surveillance Compliance Officer
• Perform blockchain analytics to assess counterparty risk and support investigations into flagged transactions
• Prepare and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) in accordance with CIMA obligations

Policy implementation & controls

• Implement and operationalize compliance policies and procedures across the business, ensuring staff understand and follow requirements
• Maintain compliance registers, logs, and documentation required for regulatory, audit, and reporting purposes
• Develop and roll out training for the Crypto teams across various Compliance topics

Regulatory & business support

• Handle day-to-day compliance queries from the trading and operations teams, providing practical and timely guidance
• Assist the Senior Crypto Compliance Officer in managing relationships with exchanges and responding to regulatory enquiries
• Support the preparation of regulatory filings and assist in managing the audit remediation plan
• Track relevant regulatory developments in the EU and US crypto landscape and flag material changes for policy review

Cross-regional collaboration

• Liaise with the Zug AML team based in Amsterdam on AML-related matters, ensuring consistency of approach across European business
• Collaborate with Compliance counterparts across European offices, as well as colleagues in the US and APAC, to support the global compliance program
• Contribute to compliance training sessions and help build a strong compliance culture across the business

Key deliverables

• Effective day-to-day operation of transaction monitoring and trade surveillance processes
• Robust implementation of Compliance policies and controls across the crypto business
• Support the Head of Compliance in delivering a fully operational compliance framework in Zug

Your Skills and Experience

• 2–4 years of Compliance experience in a regulated financial services environment, ideally with exposure to digital assets, crypto, or fintech
• Practical experience in AML transaction monitoring, trade surveillance, or compliance controls in a financial institution
• Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools (e.g. Chainalysis, Elliptic)
• Experience working in or alongside an international team across multiple jurisdictions
• A collaborative and proactive mindset — you work well with others and take ownership of your responsibilities
• Strong attention to detail and analytical capability
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills in English
• Willingness to learn quickly, adapt to a fast-moving environment, and contribute to building something new
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines with a structured, hands-on approach
• High sense of integrity and accountability

What we offer

• An early-career opportunity to help build a compliance function from the ground up in the fast-moving crypto space
• Direct mentorship and development from experienced senior compliance professionals
• Exposure to global business with colleagues across the US, Europe, and APAC
• A high-performance, collaborative culture that rewards ownership and initiative

About the Role

We are looking for a commercially driven OTC Crypto Trader to join our team in Zug. In this role, you will be directly responsible for growing the desk’s PnL and executing block trades across digital asset markets. You will be entrusted with large ticket sizes and expected to operate with professionalism, discretion, and a sharp commercial instinct.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage risk effectively on large ticket transactions, ensuring best execution and competitive pricing
• Monitor markets and maintain awareness of macro and crypto-specific developments affecting trading
• Collaborate with internal teams including technology, compliance, and operations

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of trading experience, ideally on a flow or block trading desk
• Traditional finance or non-crypto trading backgrounds welcome; crypto trading experience is a strong plus
• Demonstrable track record of handling large notional trades with sound risk management
• Intermediate Python skills — comfortable with data analysis, scripting, and trade tooling
• Commercially driven with a strong client-facing mindset
• Trustworthy, reliable, and able to exercise independent judgment under pressure
• Work nonstandard weeks i.e. cover weekends and evening shifts as required in exchange for off days on other weekdays

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary and performance-linked bonus structure
• Exposure to a fast-growing, high-conviction crypto trading operation
• Access to deep liquidity and a broad institutional counterparty network
• Collaborative team environment in Zug, one of Europe’s premier crypto hubs
• Opportunity for significant career progression as the firm scales

In 2023, IMC acquired Altas Technologies, a rapidly growing algorithmic trading firm with the ambition of creating tomorrow’s most technically advanced trading stack. By combining Altas’ highly advanced trading strategies with IMC’s execution and scaling capabilities, this move strengthens IMC's position in the market and is an important step towards ensuring stability and long-term growth for the firm.

The Altas team builds robust, fully automated systems to predict and trade cryptocurrency markets.  As a technology-oriented and scientifically-minded group, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high-performance trading platforms to distributed ML- and research infrastructure. You’ll join at a very exciting time in the growth of the team, and will be able to contribute to our success in scaling our crypto strategies. In this role you'll work together with an ambitious team of researchers and quant developers to design and implement HFT monetization frameworks end-to-end and from the ground up. 

Your Core Responsibilities

As a Quantitative Researcher, you will be operating as a senior and core member of our high-performance, dedicated, multi-disciplinary team, with a background in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Robotics, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics. The one thing we all have in common, regardless of our individual backgrounds, is a creative and scientific mindset.

You will not get a lot of top-down instruction telling you exactly what to do and when to do it. You'll get directional advice, useful frameworks, access to interesting challenges, and plenty of freedom to execute as you see fit. We are meritocratic by nature and believe that empowering talent in our organization is the only way to achieve our highly ambitious goals.

We are looking for a creative scientifically minded individual who can lead the growth of the firm’s trading research to improve execution quality in delta 1 mid-frequency (intraday) trading context. As a Quantitative Researcher, you will work together with the engineering team to implement and test execution improvements, and the research team to improve the strategies' capacity and profitability from the perspective of trading costs.

• You will have full ownership of the design and development of models and algorithms responsible for trading and optimal execution of billions in monthly volume
• You will work together with peer researchers and quant developers to design and improve HFT monetization frameworks end-to-end and from the ground up. This includes HFT alpha research, market impact modeling, ML modeling, execution benchmarking, and performance profiling
• Analyze large orders- and trades datasets for post-trade analytics, and improve monitoring capabilities to ensure we are always on top of the market, decomposing PnL and identifying blind spots / opportunities in the algorithms.

Your Skills and Experience

• An advanced degree with excellent grades in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics or any other highly quantitative field
• Experience as a Researcher in (high to mid-frequency) D1 execution research, ideating trades- and book features that are predictive of execution costs and short-term price movements.
• Demonstrable experience and interest in crypto markets is highly preferred.
• Significant practical experience with large messy datasets.
• Understanding of position management, market risk, and the optimal execution side of quant strategies (implementation shortfall, trade cost modelling).
• Scientific mindset with experience in data analysis with Python & any SQL dialect. Strong eye for detail and highly structured, using a rigorous process to ensure results are reliable and well tested
• Serious about clean code, simple but well-architected systems, and continuous improvement
• Sense of ownership taking full responsibility and accountability for your contributions
• Technical accomplishments are considered a plus: Kaggle, Hackathons, Olympiads, publications