About this role
Job title: Trading Assistant
About the Role A Trading Assistant who will bridge the workflow between the Portfolio Management and Execution teams. The role focuses on ensuring trades are captured accurately in risk systems, maintaining clean end-of-day blotters, and supporting settlement and risk management across strategies.
What You'll Do
- Ensure trades are captured accurately by internal risk systems.
- Capture end-of-day risk and ensure trade blotter is clean and that all trades are booked.
- Collaborate with operations team to ensure smooth settlement of all trades.
- Aid in Portfolio management bookkeeping tasks to limit residual interest rate and FX risk.
- Control the futures’ delivery process to ensure Portfolio Managers are trading the current, most liquid futures contracts.
- Manage NDF fixing risk.
- Aid with PnL reconciliation for Fixed Income, FX, and Interest Rate focused strategies.
- Work in close integration with software development team to optimize Pharo’s start to finish trading processes.
What We're Looking For
- 0-3 years of experience on a trading desk at an investment bank or buy-side firm.
- Strong academic background with demonstrated interest in international finance, mathematics, or macroeconomics.
- Excellent verbal and oral communication skills.
- Strong work ethic with a proclivity to self-start.
- Quantitatively inclined with proficiency in the Microsoft Suite.
- Capacity to grasp and learn new topics and concepts.
Compensation & Benefits Base salary: $90,000 - $125,000 per year (USD).