About the Role
We are seeking skilled analysts to join our Finance group, responsible for managing the firm's trading capital. This role involves critical thinking, problem-solving, and optimization within a dynamic financial environment. You will work closely with internal teams and external counterparties, contributing to system monitoring, process improvement, and strategic financial operations.
Responsibilities
- Monitor the firm’s capital usage and cost allocation systems, including triaging, escalating, and actioning alerts.
- Translate qualitative recommendations into system configuration and parameter changes.
- Reconcile internal and external margin and billing models, liaising with external counterparts.
- Execute various funding and financing trades, such as FX balance management, equity position financing, and funding treasuries.
- Operate firm-wide position management systems that shape our book based on various costs and constraints.
- Maintain and improve desk infrastructure by automating workflows, building new monitoring and visualization tools, and supporting ad-hoc requests.
- Identify material financing cost inefficiencies and establish mechanisms to optimize them.
- Make high-value, time-sensitive decisions independently.
- Take increased responsibility for key processes.
- Design and implement long-term improvements.
- Prepare and respond to exceptional events and market volatility.
Requirements
- 1+ years of professional experience in a quantitative or technical role.
- Interested in a role focused on day-to-day processes and real-time monitoring.
- Proactive, organized, and thorough, with keen attention to detail.
- Able to learn quickly, follow policies and procedures, and show good judgment under pressure.
- Comfortable with data analysis and familiar with basic programming techniques.
- Willing to learn Python and SQL.
- Willing to develop techniques for using AI to scale existing processes.
- Numerate and comfortable taking a quantitative approach to make decisions.
- Curious and eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, and continuously improve.
- Strong verbal and written communicator.
- Comfortable building strong relationships with external partners.
- May be required to take registration exams for a series license upon starting.
Skills
- Data analysis
- Basic programming techniques
- Python
- SQL
- AI
- Quantitative approach
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Relationship building
Experience Level
- 1+ years
About the Company
- Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm that operates on the forefront of technology and finance.
