Middle-Office Internship

Capital Fund Management (CFM); Paris; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital Fund Management (CFM) in Paris is seeking a motivated Operations team member to innovate and improve operational efficiency. You will automate processes for market reports, monitor corporate actions, manage compliance lists, and enhance user experience with production tools. Candidates should have a Master's in capital markets finance, be skilled in Python and Excel (VBA), and be fluent in French and English. We value integrity, excellence, and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Initial experience in capital markets finance (internship, gap year) required.
• Aptitude for automation, data analysis, and process improvement is essential.
• Comfortable in both French and English.

Responsibilities

• Explore automation solutions for market report retrieval.
• Monitor corporate action events for operational risks.
• Manage restriction lists from prime brokers and exchanges.
• Regulatory reporting of short positions.
• Work with IT to improve production screens and user experience.

Skills

Data analysis

Automation

Problem investigation

Continuous process improvement

Python

Excel (VBA)

Bloomberg

SQL

Tableau

Education

Master's level in capital markets finance or equivalent

Job description

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Founded in 1991, we are a global quantitative and systematic asset management firm applying a scientific approach to finance to develop alternative investment strategies that create value for our clients.
We value innovation, dedication, collaboration, and the ability to make an impact. Together, we create a stimulating environment for talented and passionate experts in research, technology, and business to explore new ideas and challenge existing assumptions.

Your Role

The Operations team plays a central and transversal role within CFM and emphasizes the values of integrity and excellence. We guarantee the reliability of the front-to-back chain and provide real-time support and control services that are essential to other teams. Our team is constantly looking for new ways to innovate and leverage technology to improve controls, reduce operational risk, and optimize the efficiency of our system.

Your missions will include:

• Explore solutions to automate the retrieval of daily notes and market reports provided by brokers, and identify which information could be meaningfully integrated into our production workflow.
• Monitor corporate action events that could generate operational risks.
• Management of restriction lists from various prime brokers, various exchanges, etc.
• Regulatory reporting: declaration of our short positions to the authorities
• In collaboration with IT, identify and eliminate pain points present on our production screens to continuously improve user experience and system performance.

Participate in Team projects:

• Automate the verification of stock eligibility criteria before their integration into strategies, using VBA/Python.
• Improvement of the price variation process and the management screens for the universe of tradable stocks.
• Optimization/automation of benchmark repo rate retrieval

Your Skills

• You have initial experience (internship, gap year) in capital markets finance (Master's level or equivalent)
• You have an aptitude for automation, data analysis and presentation, problem investigation and continuous process improvement
• You master Python and/or Excel (VBA)
• You are comfortable in both French and English
• We are looking for motivated, curious, rigorous personalities with a strong team spirit.
• Good knowledge of Bloomberg, SQL and Tableau

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

We are continuously striving to be an equal opportunity employer and we prohibit any discrimination based on sex, disability, origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, or religion. We believe that our diversity, breadth of experience, and multiple points of view are among the leading factors in our success.
CFM is a signatory of the Women Empowerment Principles .