Best suited to mid-level financing professionals with strong APAC market relationships and technical skills working in a quantitative trading environment.
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Original posting from Jane Street via Greenhouse
About the Position
We are looking for a financing professional to support and develop Jane Street's APAC financing capabilities across multiple asset classes. To thrive in this role, you’ll need prior experience developing financing solutions at a bank, broker-dealer or buy-side firm and strong relationships with prime brokers and counterparties across the spectrum of APAC markets and financing structures.
This role is entrepreneurial—it offers the opportunity to collaborate on immediate trading decisions and develop the firm's longer-term financing strategy. In doing so, you can expect to work with a broad range of internal teams to understand and manage the various constraints of a quantitative trading firm. Additional responsibilities of the role will include:
Optimising our financing capacity: improving access to inventory, identifying inefficiencies in our workflows, reducing costs
Collaborating across our trading desks to collaborate on real-time and strategic trading decisions
Maintaining and developing relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
Helping to form our longer-term financing strategy by improving and expanding our financing activity
Understanding our firmwide financing constraints and comparing financing opportunities using in-depth cost-benefit analysis
Application of technical skills to contribute to building and improving infrastructure supporting our financing workflows and initiatives
About You
Have 3-7 years of related securities financing experience at a bank or buy-side firm
Have a strong understanding of Asian market microstructure and mechanics, financing and stock loan markets; having experience across multiple asset classes and financing structures is a plus
Strong understanding and appreciation of risk and risk consequences in the context of Asian markets and products
Excited and able to cultivate and manage relationships with prime brokers and other clearing, execution, and financing counterparties
Have strong analytical skills and experience performing technical data analysis to solve problems
Intellectually curious and motivated to learn about how the financing role fits into other areas of the firm
Fluency in Python, SQL or other programming languages is a strong plus
An effective communicator who works well in a team environment
Fluent in English
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com
Source: Jane Street careers (Greenhouse)