Financing Specialist

<h3>About the Position</h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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:</p> <ul> <li>Optimising our financing capacity: improving access to inventory, identifying inefficiencies in our workflows, reducing costs</li> <li>Collaborating across our trading desks to collaborate on real-time and strategic trading decisions</li> <li>Maintaining and developing relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties</li> <li>Helping to form our longer-term financing strategy by improving and expanding our financing activity</li> <li>Understanding our firmwide financing constraints and comparing financing opportunities using in-depth cost-benefit analysis</li> <li>Application of technical skills to contribute to building and improving infrastructure supporting our financing workflows and initiatives</li> </ul> <h3>About You</h3> <ul> <li>Have 3-7 years of related securities financing experience at a bank or buy-side firm</li> <li>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</li> <li>Strong understanding and appreciation of risk and risk consequences in the context of Asian markets and products</li> <li>Excited and able to cultivate and manage relationships with prime brokers and other clearing, execution, and financing counterparties</li> <li>Have strong analytical skills and experience performing technical data analysis to solve problems&nbsp;</li> <li>Intellectually curious and motivated to learn about how the financing role fits into other areas of the firm</li> <li>Fluency in Python, SQL or other programming languages is a strong plus</li> <li>An effective communicator who works well in a team environment</li> <li>Fluent in English</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com</em></p>