Financing Specialist

The role

This professional will support and develop Jane Street's APAC financing capabilities across multiple asset classes. You will collaborate on trading decisions and develop the firm's longer-term financing strategy.

What you will do

• Optimising financing capacity by improving access to inventory, identifying workflow inefficiencies, and reducing costs
• Collaborating across trading desks on real-time and strategic trading decisions
• Maintaining and developing relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
• Helping to form longer-term financing strategy by improving and expanding financing activity
• Understanding firmwide financing constraints and comparing opportunities using cost-benefit analysis
• Applying technical skills to help build and improve infrastructure supporting financing workflows and initiatives

Required qualifications

• 3-7 years of related securities financing experience at a bank or buy-side firm
• Strong understanding of Asian market microstructure and mechanics, financing and stock loan markets
• Strong understanding and appreciation of risk and risk consequences in the context of Asian markets and products
• Ability to cultivate and manage relationships with prime brokers and other clearing, execution, and financing counterparties
• 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
• Effective communicator who works well in a team environment
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Experience across multiple asset classes and financing structures
• Fluency in Python, SQL or other programming languages

About the company

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm.