Financing Specialist

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 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
• Applying your technical skills to help build and improve 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
• Have a 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
• An effective communicator who works well in a team environment
• Fluency in Python, SQL or other programming languages is a strong plus
• Fluent in English

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com