Securities Financing Specialist
About this role
About the Position
We’re looking for a Securities Financing Specialist to support and develop Jane Street’s financing capabilities. The ideal candidate has prior experience in financing or securities lending at a bank or buy-side firm, along with strong external relationships with counterparties.
You can expect to work with a broad range of internal teams to understand and manage the various constraints of a quantitative trading firm. You'll also have the opportunity to execute real-time financing decisions and improve our long-term financing strategy.
Additional responsibilities of this role will include:
- Working closely with trading desks and infrastructure teams to optimize the financing and securities lending transactions across various products
- Maintaining and developing relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
- Being a reliable subject matter expert in the financing markets to support our trading desks’ decisions
- Helping to form our long-term financing strategy by improving and expanding our financing activity and capacity
- Working with all groups within our Finance department to find robust solutions to strategic and tactical problems
- Learning about and supporting other products, financing structures, and trading desks within Jane Street
About You
- Have 2-5 years of relevant financing experience at a buy-side firm or bank (some exposure to credit financing, ideally in corporate bonds, is preferred)
- Excited and able to cultivate relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
- Have strong analytical skills and experience with performing technical data analysis to solve problems (e.g., through previous work experience, STEM coursework)
- Intellectually curious and motivated to learn about new products, funding trade types, and strategies
- An effective communicator who works well in a team environment
- Fluency in Python, SQL, or other programming languages is a strong plus
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected].
Company at a glance
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.
More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
Jane Street does not offer any services to individual investors: https://www.janestreet.com/fraud-and-impersonation-warnings/
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