Senior Strategy Analyst / Hedge Fund recruitment
Our client, a financial institution, is looking for its Hedge Fund department a Strategy Analyst.The position will be based in NYC or London
Job Description
Hedge Fund Selection:
- Build a well defined universe of equity l/s and to lesser extent driven managers
- Develop relationships with the key managers of the universe.
- Write informative reports from contacts with those managers.
- Select credit managers from this universe through:
- In-depth qualitative analysis of the manager’s strategy and trading ability
- In-depth quantitative analysis of the strategy and its risk profile
- Perform hedge fund due diligence on the selected managers.
- Communicate effectively with the team and the investment committee.
Hedge Fund Monitoring:
- Develop/Demonstrate a deep understanding of markets and instruments in relations to the monitoring of managers’ positioning and performances versus pre-defined expectations.
- Manage fund manager relationships with regards to change in the organization and in strategy capacity.
- Deliver effective and timely reporting of managers’ evolutions to the investment committee.
- Show decision making ability: ability to increase/decrease risk/position sizes decisively.
Back up of other analysts:
- Understand the activities of other team members
- Back up other analyst for the following strategies: credit.
Required Profile
- Expertise in stock analysis (sell side or buy side), understanding of PL and money management
- At least 7 years in a similar role
- Deep knowledge of financial assets and instruments
- Ability to write well constructed reports in good English
- English speaking
May 29, 2012
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