Internship – Financial Engineering Assistant – Equity Derivatives and Structured Products recruitment

The Solutions department capitalizes on an integrated engineering team to deliver cross asset expertise and better manage trading risk. You will more specifically join the Engineering team in charge of structuring leveraged products to hedge funds

 Main Accountabilities

Primary tasks include but are not limited to:

* Structure derivatives products from a financial standpoint:

* Perform risk analyses on portfolios of Hedge Funds (haircut calculation)

* Get internal approvals for the transactions

* Ensure transactions’ proper execution and post-trade monitoring

* Follow-up specific projects and update the internal systems

* Improve internal processes, tools and macros on an on-going basis

* Monitor financial markets and the Funds of Hedge Funds business

* Learn and understand highly sophisticated financial products and the risks they involve

* Acquire a great culture on Funds of Funds and Hedge Funds businesses

* Follow transactions from inception to maturity

* Being a link between the dealing room’s different activities, and interacting with Sales force and Traders on a daily basis

* Communicating with Sales, Traders, Legal and Risk Departments and the Support teams (Middle Office, IT…)

Capabilities – Required Qualification– Multi-tasking

Competencies

Required:

* Ability to interact with a lot of people, you will often be asked several tasks at the same time and will need to prioritize them

* Ability to propose new ideas or instruments to improve the efficiency of the team

* Capacity to set oneself high standards and meet deadlines with detail

* Capacity to persevere in the long-term despite difficulties and remain positive

* Ability to work in a rigorous manner, according to schedules, business processes and guidelines

* Ability to anticipate and organize events and activities, taking into account goals, priorities and lead times

Technical skills

Required:

* Advanced Excel and VBA experience is a MUST

* You will be one of the first actors of the deals. The sales, engineers and traders will all rely on your risk analysis to either push or cancel a new transaction

Prior Work experience

Required:

* Must have a good knowledge of financial markets and derivative products. This is crucial in order to effectively communicate with all the actors across the Trading Floor

* Being able to analyze and synthesize the risks linked to a transaction from a quantitative stand-point

Desired/ Plus:

* Previous experience in Finance or Market Finance is a plus

Education

Required:

* Graduate from top-tier University (Master’s degree), Engineering School or Business school, with a major in finance.

Languages

Required:

* Must be fluent in English

Desired/ Plus:

* French