Equity Finance Associate

Equity Finance Associate (APAC)

The Role

We are seeking to hire a highly motivated individual to work within the Treasury team as an Equity Finance Associate.

The Treasury team is responsible for all aspects of financing functions across the firm’s investment activities including but not limited to collateral optimization and balance allocations, counterparty relationships, counterparty legal agreement negotiations, counterparty risk management, cash reinvestment strategies and FX exposure management for the firm. The team plays a very central role at the firm and works extremely closely with both the investment and infrastructure sides of the firm’s businesses.

What you’ll do 

You will provide coverage for PM requests in Equity Finance, working with investment teams, sell side partners, vendors and internal groups to perform daily treasury functions, including intraday stock borrow, funding and FX.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Primary coverage of stock borrow requests
• Interact with investment teams, sell side partners, vendors and internal groups to perform daily Treasury functions
• Analyze and query third party data to create bespoke equity finance analytical content
• Support the APAC Head of Portfolio Finance in all equity finance flow and processing
• Working with PMs to understand their information needs and implement reporting
• Assist in building processes, dashboards and systems to optimize equity portfolio distribution among Prime Broker counterparties.

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• Experience covering stock borrow requests
• Knowledge of Prime trading activities – including stock borrow, funding and FX
• Knowledge of Asia market rules on swaps & futures
• Naturally process driven to enhance workflows and analysis
• Excellent communication skills to work effectively with counterparties and internal teams
• The ability to carry out multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with strong attention to detail

We’d love if you had:

• Local language skills (Korean or Japanese a plus)
• Experience and/or interest with using and learning programming languages

Who we are  
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance.

We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income. We capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets, drawing from a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.

We invest through internal portfolio managers and external partner funds, pursuing alignment among investors, investment professionals, and the firm. Our footprint spans 7 countries and 19 offices.

Our Culture
Talent is our strategy. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative, and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning & educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.

We foster a sense of belonging among all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. Our employees value diversity across identity, thought, people and perspective which serves as the foundation of our culture. As a firm, we are committed to creating a hiring process that is fair, welcoming and supportive.  

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