About the Role
We are seeking skilled analysts for our Finance group, responsible for managing the firm's trading capital. This role involves critical thinking, problem-solving, and optimization within a framework of limits and constraints, supporting trading desks, managing positions, and strategizing for future growth. You will also be involved in the modeling, monitoring, operational processes, and infrastructure that enable these functions.
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, including 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 working in a role focused on day-to-day processes and real-time monitoring.
- Proactive, organized, and thorough, with a 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.
- Fluent in English.
- May be required to obtain FCA approval and pass any registration exams or qualifications needed upon starting.
Skills
- Data analysis
- Basic programming techniques
- Python
- SQL
- AI
- Quantitative approach
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Relationship building
Location
- Various offices
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1+ years of professional experience
About the Company
- Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm that operates globally.
