Start-up Systematic Hedge Fund – Junior Operations Specialist recruitment

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for someone to join a new boutique Systematic Hedge Fund in the City of London. The suitable candidate will be expected to provide trade support and operational advice. The role reports directly to one of the Partners at the firm and you will be responsible for:

- Daily trade reconciliation and NAV production.
- Liaising with PB and Administrators to work on reconciliations of trade, positions, cash and PnL between internal records and third parties.
- Investigating and rectifying daily trade breaks, dealing with corporate action election and asset pricing.
- Check and maintain the PL records, calculation and reconciliation of management and performance fees, producing the weekly and monthly NAVs for the fund and managed accounts, ensure a smooth production of month-end NAV
- Work with Auditor and administrator on annual fund audit report

- Trade Support and other general support
- Troubleshoot beginning of day, pre-open issues for the trading systems, management of the equity investment pool, monitoring open positions and solve the trade breaks.
- Management of dividends, corporate actions, contracts expiration and life cycle events
- Calculation of the allocation of income across different share classes for Multi-series or Equalization accounting
- Assisting with producing risk report, marketing report, various projects and other ad-hoc tasks
- Involvement in the broader operation process and technical support
Skill Requirements:

Minimum of 1-2 year experience in working with a Hedge fund/ Prime brokers in the operations, product control or trade support desk/Fund administrator, with good knowledge in equity and futures.

Required IT skill:
Proficient with MS Office, in particular Excel and VB scripts.
Automated (Unix) scripting to query textual data.
Familiar with using SQL queries.

Accounting qualifications will be a plus (but not essential)

This is an exciting opportunity for the right individual who can flourish in a small sized company (currently 6 people) undergoing a period of growth and rapid change. If you are keen on this opportunity, please respond to this advert with an up to date copy of your CV. Alternatively, should you have any further questions please feel free to call me on 02074698955.