Financing Specialist

Janestreet; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Janestreet in Hong Kong is seeking a financing professional to enhance its APAC financing capabilities across various asset classes. The ideal candidate will have 3-7 years of relevant experience and a strong grasp of Asian market microstructure.

This entrepreneurial position involves optimizing financing capacity, collaborating across trading desks, and developing strategic relationships with prime brokers.

The role offers opportunities for growth and requires strong analytical abilities, effective communication skills, and programming experience, particularly in Python and SQL.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of related securities financing experience at a bank or buy-side firm.
• Strong understanding of Asian market microstructure and mechanics.
• Excited to manage relationships with prime brokers and other financing counterparties.

Responsibilities

• Optimise financing capacity and improve access to inventory.
• Collaborate on real-time and strategic trading decisions.
• Maintain and develop relationships with prime brokers.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Fluency in Python

Fluency in SQL

Job description

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