Business Analyst - Risk Management
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
Seeking a motivated, data-oriented Business Analyst with a desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of business and technology, driving transformation within our Risk department. You will be focusing on requirements documentation, project delivery, and managing the software development lifecycle for post-trade support function.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as business and data analyst across the risk team, operations and technology
- Ownership of technical implementation, testing and production roll-out
- The documentation and mapping out of technical solutions
- Identify and communicate technical constraints, bugs, delays to business
- Assist business side management with technology resource allocation and prioritization
- Experience with both in-house built and vendor supplied solutions
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience in technical risk focused business analysis at a buy side firm
- Experience working across different asset classes, products and markets
- Ability to scope out functional and technical requirements based on risk team user input
- Comfortable with databases, cloud computing, and large data sets
- Deep understanding of financial products
- Experience working with complex business system integration and implementation
- Ability to communicate detailed levels to development teams and end-users
- Minimum level of technical proficiency – Python, R, BASH, etc
- Experience in project management software (JIRA, Monday) as well as version control (Git, etc)
The ideal candidate has an analytical mindset, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and strong prioritization skills in a fast-paced environment.
Salary Range
$150,000—$200,000 USD
Top Skills
What We Do
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Credit, Fixed Income & Macro, Convertible & Volatility Arbitrage, Event-Driven, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Strategies.
Talent is the lifeline of Verition's success. Our culture encourages individuals to communicate openly across all strategies and businesses, and we believe there is alpha in integration. We strive to empower our Investment Professionals to act like business owners by making decisions based on a combination of rigorous analysis and an open, creative mindset. We have locations in Greenwich, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, London, UK, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, DIFC, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and an affiliate office in Hong Kong (SAR), China. Verition has an institutional quality infrastructure with a team of over 500 investment/risk and non-investment professionals.
Verition is always seeking ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals that can be impactful and help to drive differentiated returns.
To learn more, please contact us for information at: [email protected]
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