Senior Associate/Manager, Desk Strategist - ETF

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Senior Associate/Manager with strong analysis and functional design skills to join the Fixed Income, FID, Strategist group to work on ETF primary and secondary trading workflows and F2B programs. The candidate is expected to work across all FID asset classes and contribute to valuation/pricing of derivatives, computation of ETF NAVs, analysis, stakeholder management, design, implementation, and data analytics.

A solid understanding of the Fixed Income businesses is required, and a wider understanding of front-to-back risk and valuation flow is an advantage.

In the Fixed Income division, we work in fast-paced and constantly changing global markets to assess and manage risk, trade securities, manage relationships with clients, and structure and execute innovative transactions.

What you'll do in the role:

• Beyond technical and business skills, the candidate is expected to be able to communicate well, adapt rapidly, and learn fast. Sound judgment will be required to understand and reformulate requirements, evaluate risks, develop adapted solutions, find the right balance between tactical and strategic solutions, and offer the best value to our clients, with respect to regulations, compliance, and firm procedures.
• ETF creation and redemption execution and build tools to enhance the management of systematic market making book.
• Develop clean, well-designed, and reusable code to compute ETF NAV.
• Generate visualization of research and backtest results to support real-time decision making of the ETF trading desk.
• Work on sophisticated models to help traders accurately assess ETF risk and values.
• Collaborate closely with the ETF trading desk to support daily data and analytics needs.
• ETF creation and redemption execution and analysis opportunities for the firm.
• Data and risk analysis.
• Help form a clearing house for emerging issues and requirements and manage them to resolution.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Strong understanding of the ETF business, primary flows, Fixed Income business, and derivative pricing.
• Strong quantitative skills; knowledge of ETF/macro products and financing rate is a plus.
• Business analysis discipline; digging deep beneath the surface to develop the real business requirement.
• Strong communication and networking skills.
• Project leadership; bringing different teams together to execute on a plan towards a common goal.

Technical Skills:

• Intermediate/advanced Python skills required.
• Intermediate statistics skills required.
• Intermediate knowledge of databases required.