Securities Financing Specialist

We are looking for a financing professional to support and develop Jane Street's EMEA financing capabilities across multiple asset classes. To thrive in this role, you'll need prior experience developing financing solutions at a bank or buy-side firm and strong relationships with prime brokers and counterparties across the spectrum of equity, ETF and corporate credit financing products.

This role is entrepreneurial-it offers the opportunity to shape and execute financing decisions and help develop the firm's long-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 will include:

• Managing and negotiating our financing transactions on a day-to-day basis across various products
• Maintaining and developing relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
• Optimising our financing footprint across counterparties, products and structures: identifying inefficiencies, reducing costs and improving terms across the book
• Helping to form our long-term financing strategy by improving and expanding our current activity
• Understanding our firmwide financing constraints and comparing financing opportunities using in-depth cost-benefit analysis
• Helping to build and improve the infrastructure that supports our financing initiatives

• Have 3-5 years of relevant financing experience at a buy-side firm or bank
• Have a strong understanding of EMEA financing and stock loan markets; having experience across multiple asset classes (e.g., equities, corporate bonds, ETFs) and financing structures (e.g., PB, swap, repo) is a plus
• Excited and able to cultivate and manage relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
• Have strong analytical skills and experience with performing technical data analysis to solve problems (e.g., through previous work experience, STEM coursework)
• Intellectually curious and motivated to learn about new financing trade types and strategies
• An effective communicator who works well in a team environment
• Having fluency in Python, SQL or other programming languages is a strong plus
• Fluent in English