**************Multiple Job Opportunities************* Title : Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Deadline: 11/30/2013 Expiration Date: 01/03/2014 City: CHICAGO Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1247802 Description: Downtown Chicago based $4b investment management firm seeks a portfolio manager for its Strategic Income Fund, a public mutual fund with $40mm in AUM that can invest, long or short, in all credit markets. The ideal candidate should have a least 5 years of experience in credit research or portfolio management ideally covering high yield and/or high grade credits. Experience with credit derivatives a plus. Strong written and oral communication skills a must as the candidate will also be responsible for helping in the marketing of the fund. Compensation commensurate with experience. MBA and or CFA required. Contact: pmjob@zieglerlotsoff Regions: Central States (US) Roles: Portfolio Manager Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Prime Services - Risk Manager Deadline: 11/20/2013 Expiration Date: 01/03/2014 City: NEW YORK CITY Salary: Expected Travel: 25% Job Id: 1247796 Description: Risk monitoring of C&E client portfolios, including risk limit and stress loss calculation. Extensive interaction with external clients on all stages of the service life cycle, including participating in pitches. Ongoing client contact from a risk management perspective to maintain and expand our wallet share. Assess margin requirement and stree loss of complex PB, OTC, FX, and Exchange Traded Derivative portfolios. Close cooperation with the GFS Sales/Senior Relationship Management, Account Managers, Collateral Managers, and Credit Officers. Participate in regional and Global Risk projects to enhance risk assessment and monitoring. Participate in regoinal and global risk calls. Series 7 required. Contact: christopher.lillis@ubs Regions: New York City (US) Roles: Banking or Finance Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Quantitative Research Associate Deadline: 12/30/2013 Expiration Date: 01/03/2014 City: DURHAM Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1179201 Description: QMS Capital Management is looking to hire quantitative researchers to help develop both statistical and structural models using market-based and economic data for global currency, equity, fixed income, and commodity markets. QMS’s research culture offers a unique blend of academic rigor and practical implementation. The ideal candidate will be well trained in a quantitative discipline, creative, independent, and able to collaborate in a team research environment. Role: • Develop proprietary datasets to propel research in new directions • Conduct leading edge statistical and economic based research for various asset classes • Actively participate in various parts of the investment process, including portfolio management, risk management, portfolio construction & optimization, backtesting and performance attribution Qualifications: • MS or PhD in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or related quantitative discipline • Strong statistical and mathematical modeling skills • Solid knowledge and experience with statistical programming languages, preferably Matlab • Experience with relational databases and SQL • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Openness to new challenges, ideas and approaches • Detail oriented Employer: QMS Capital Management is an alternative investment management firm applying sophisticated quantitative methods to investing in financial markets. The firm’s approach blends academic research, extensive asset management experience, and state of the art technology to serve its clients. QMS Capital has been building investment research and trading tools since 2009 and began investing in liquid global markets in 2010. QMS Capital is a CFTC registered Commodity Trading Advisor and Commodity Pool Operator. Contact: recruiting@qmscapital Regions: New York City (US), Southeastern States (US) Roles: Associate or Economist or Finance or Fund Manager or Investment Manager or Portfolio Manager or Trader Markets: Emerging Markets or Energy/Environment or Equities or Equity Futures/Options or FX or FX Derivatives or Financial or Funds or Hard/Metal or MMkts or Soft/Agriculture Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Doctorate or Masters Degree or PHD Departments: Skills: Matlab or SQL Languages: Certifications: Title : Operations Analyst Deadline: 11/30/2013 Expiration Date: 01/03/2014 City: DURHAM Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1247775 Description: Job Description QMS Capital Management, a Durham, NC based quantitative investment management firm, is looking for an operations analyst to handle trade reconciliation, performance calculations, and hedge fund accounting. This position is in our Durham, NC office. The job responsibilities of the operations analyst will include: * Daily reconciliation of futures and currency forward trades and positions * Daily reconciliation of cash balances and commissions * Communication with brokers and fund administrators to resolve breaks * Monthly account performance verification * Preparation of management fee and incentive fee calculations * “Shadow” hedge fund accounting, and review of third-party administrator monthly NAV calculations * Audit team participation - working with third-party administrator and auditor on annual audit process Skills and Knowledge Required: * Bachelor’s degree, preferably in accounting or finance * 4+ years in derivatives/securities operations and/or hedge fund accounting * Strong knowledge of accounting concepts and accounting principles * Strong organizational skills * Strong oral and written communication skills * Exceptional attention to detail * Strong MS Office (especially Excel) skills Contact: If you are interested in applying for this position, please email your resume to recruiting@qmscapital. If you are interested in applying for this position, please email your resume to recruiting@qmscapital Regions: Southeastern States (US) Roles: Operations Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : IT SUPPORT Deadline: 12/01/2013 Expiration Date: 01/03/2014 City: LONDON Salary: 40000 - 50000 GBP Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1247697 Description: An established outsourced Equity trading desk based in the heart of SW London is looking for an experienced IT support professional to provide key front line support to the traders and operation staff on the desk. This will be a hybrid role, you will be dealing with day to day tech issues, to learning about trading systems and set up and dealing with our outsourced IT venders. Also, There is scope to learn more about the front end side of the business and help out on operations The role would suit a keen graduate with a IT literate degree/ 1st Jobber to make the next step in their career. Contact: shjb1980@gmail Regions: United Kingdom Roles: MIS Information Technology Markets: Equities Industry: Experience Level: 2+ years Degrees: Bachelors Degree Departments: Skills: Bloomberg Professional or Microsoft Office or Thomson Financial Languages: Certifications: Title : Treasury Planning Analyst Deadline: 12/31/2013 Expiration Date: 01/03/2014 City: IRVINE Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1247833 Description: Treasury Analyst to provide quantitative and analytical support for Treasury management decision making. Update funding plans, perform scenario analysis and liquidity stress tests. Assist in monthly reporting, hedge execution, compliance, and cash flow modeling. Contact: Please send CV to Frank Boroch at fboroch@hcamerica or 949-468-4046. Regions: West Coast States (US) Roles: Analyst Markets: Corporate Bonds or FX Derivatives or Loans Industry: Experience Level: 2+ years Degrees: Bachelors Degree Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Analyst - Equity and Equity Derivatives Deadline: 11/25/2013 Expiration Date: 01/04/2014 City: NEW YORK CITY Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1242655 Description: An agency execution/research broker is seeking to add an analyst to work directly with the Chief Strategist to deploy strategy and research. Ideal candidate should have minimum two years equity research, or equity capital markets experience. The individual should have extreme attention to detail, excellent writing skills, an entrepreneurial spirit, strong Excel modeling capabilities, and equity derivatives experience. Candidate should be a self-starter and able to grasp new tasks and concepts. Contact: shortgammatrader@gmail 212-715-8743 Regions: Northeastern States (US) Roles: Analyst or Associate or Banking or Broker or Finance Markets: Credit Derivatives or Equities or Equity Futures/Options or FX Derivatives or Financial or M & A Industry: Experience Level: 2+ years Degrees: Bachelors Degree Departments: Skills: Bloomberg Professional or Microsoft Office Languages: Certifications: Series 63 or Series 7 Title : Research Analyst Deadline: 12/31/2013 Expiration Date: 01/04/2014 City: BOSTON Salary: Expected Travel: 25% Job Id: 1247935 Description: Midwood Capital Management LLC is an investment management firm located in Boston, MA founded in 2003. The firm currently manages a value oriented long / short strategy investing in domestic small-cap and micro-cap equities. We hold a portfolio of approximately 50 stocks (20 long and 30 short) with a majority of our capital invested in ten core long positions. Midwood employs a highly research-intensive process in analyzing companies and industries that has generated above-market returns over a long period of time. The Portfolio Managers of Midwood have extensive experience in public equity investing with backgrounds in private equity investing and investment banking. Both principals received MBAs from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH. Midwood is looking for a Research Analyst to assist the Portfolio Managers on a full-time basis in researching and analyzing public companies and their respective industries. A candidate should have a number of key attributes to be considered for the position: • BA/BS degree plus one to three years of full-time work experience preferably in strategy consulting, corporate finance/M&A or sell-side/buy-side equity research • Strong finance skills are a must. We would expect a candidate to have a solid accounting background and have a good understanding of the core elements of financial analysis and valuation • Strong research capabilities including the ability to perform primary research through the public Internet as well as other electronic databases. The individual should also have solid interpersonal skills and be able to conduct one-on-one interviews with company management teams and industry participants. The individual will be expected to synthesize and present this information formally to the Portfolio Managers • A self-starter capable of working independently as a member of a small team. Most of the time the individual will not have hour-to-hour guidance and will be expected function on his/her own • A deep interest in learning more about companies, industries, and public market investing Contact: David Cohen, Portfolio Manager, decohen@midwoodcapital, 617-531-5452 Regions: New England States (US) Roles: Analyst Markets: Equities Industry: Experience Level: 1+ years Degrees: Bachelors Degree Departments: Skills: Bloomberg Professional or CapIQ or Microsoft Office Languages: Certifications: Title : Attorney Deadline: 11/06/2013 Expiration Date: 01/04/2014 City: NEW YORK CITY Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1243852 Description: Our client is seeking a talented attorney to join their Legal team, supporting the negotiation and coordination of a variety of important vendor and counterparty relationships with a focus on data and technology procurement and related document and diligence management. Your responsibilities will include: Liaising with business partners to understand their business needs; Drafting and negotiating a variety of data, technology, confidentiality, brokerage and other vendor contracts; Identifying issues in vendor and counterparty arrangements that may relate to a broad array of legal, compliance, contractual and business concerns and involve a diverse set of business units within the organization; Facilitating contract negotiation process from beginning to end; Maintaining a dynamic catalogue of vendor agreements; Standardizing preferred contracts and deal terms across the organization; Keeping abreast of industry developments and legal issues related to the firms various business lines; Fielding inquiries from employees and management on contractual matters. Requirements Include: A minimum of two years of experience negotiating contracts. Outstanding organizational and oral and written communication skills. Ability to multi-task in a dynamic, complex environment. Comfort interacting with business professionals and external advisors. Experience with hedge funds, financial services, intellectual property or technology companies is advantageous but not necessary. Data and technology experience is a plus. Contact: sheri@ijcpartners Regions: New York City (US) Roles: Lawyer or Legal Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Front Office Development Intern Deadline: 01/04/2014 Expiration Date: 01/04/2014 City: NEW YORK CITY Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1247989 Description: NYC based diversified alternative asset manager with approximately $7 billion under management is seeking an intern candidate to support the development of front-end portfolio/risk management systems. The ideal candidates should have a programming background, a track record of creating high-quality products/excellent communication skills.Duties include a combination of activities including design, development/testing of various .Net applications forming the core front end portfolio/risk management systems. Responsibilities:Analyze/translate business requirements into technical requirements for development.Research/evaluate solutions/recommend implementations.Create software for the strategy/research and risk departments in support of portfolio managers, analysts/traders. Solutions must be consistent with Companys software development standards.Strong contributions to the Rapid Application Development process including: design, development and deployment. High levels of quality in design/code will be expected for extensibility/maintainability, as well as for performance and scalability.Provide post implementation support to include: monitoring application performance/debugging existing code.Ensure that expected application performance levels are achieved by producing testable code.Continuously expand industry/technical knowledge.Qualifications:Working toward or recently completed a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science..Net application development/support.SQL Server 2008/ above. SQL Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions.C# (Win Forms Preferred).MS Excel VBA.Subversion or other Source Control System.Strong Object Oriented Programming (OOP) knowledge.Accurate, high-speed application development.Strong analytical skills.Proactive/flexible approach to work with effective written/verbal communication skills.Knowledge of structured products/fixed income.WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) preferred.LINQ, Nhibernate or other ORM preferred.Working knowledge of Sybase IQ preferred. Contact: Please apply through MKPs career portal at: https://jobs-mkpcap.icims/jobs/1029/front-office-development-intern/job Regions: New York City (US) Roles: MIS Information Technology Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Debt Origination Specialist Deadline: 12/31/2013 Expiration Date: 01/05/2014 City: LONDON Salary: GBP Expected Travel: 25% Job Id: 1248154 Description: We are looking to hire a debt origination specialist within our fixed income team. We prefer candidates with European background who will be able to originate debt products from Southern Europe, the candidate must have a large experience in the region as well as strong contacts. ( No headhunters please) Contact: mohammed.jamal@moltonstreetcap Regions: United Kingdom, Europe Roles: Banking Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Hedge Fund Operations/Trading Assistant Deadline: 12/01/2013 Expiration Date: 01/05/2014 City: NEW YORK CITY Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1248244 Description: Growing, $100M AUM, NYC based global long/short equity hedge fund seeks candidate for operational support and trading assistance, reporting directly to firm CFO. Intelligence, integrity and detail orientation required. Advanced MS Excel skills a prerequisite, and some experience with hedge fund operations and systems such as Bloomberg, RediPlus, Advent, etc. a plus. The position will require flexible hours and willingness to work from home. $50-$75K base plus bonus, with opportunity for growth. Must include a cover letter detailing your interest and Excel skills. Contact: hedgefundopsrole@gmail Regions: New York City (US) Roles: Operations Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Associate - Debt Capital Markets - New York Deadline: 01/05/2014 Expiration Date: 01/05/2014 City: NEW YORK CITY Salary: Expected Travel: 25% Job Id: 1248220 Description: Job Description Houlihan Lokey’s Debt Capital Markets Group originates, structures, and executes private and public debt financings on behalf of the firm’s corporate clients across numerous industries. Associates work on transactions that provide exposure to various debt products and financing techniques, such as senior loans, acquisition financing, second-lien debt, unitranche debt, mezzanine debt, private placements and public bonds. You will: • Work directly with a talented, dedicated staff of senior professionals who will give you broad exposure to the many different considerations affecting public and private debt financings; • Assist with evaluating and structuring customized financing alternatives for clients based on market clearing terms of comparable transactions that you research and analyze; and • Develop general Corporate Finance and valuation skills relevant to raising capital, while building a detailed understanding of key developments in the debt capital markets. The environment at Houlihan Lokey is collegial and entrepreneurial, and, as such, rewards associates with substantial responsibility and interaction with senior-level professionals. Qualifications The Debt Capital Markets Group is looking for a motivated and committed individual with an exceptional work ethic who will assume substantial responsibility and support senior-level professionals. The ideal candidate will have a solid fundamental understanding of finance, accounting and valuation, as well as strong analytical abilities and verbal and written communication skills. Candidates must also have a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff. - 1-2 years of investment banking experience required - MBA preferred - Course work in accounting and finance is highly recommended Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V Contact: Please apply via careers.hl Regions: New York City (US) Roles: Associate Markets: Industry: Experience Level: 1+ years Degrees: Bachelors Degree Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : High Yield - Analyst (Support for the PM) Deadline: 11/20/2013 Expiration Date: 01/05/2014 City: LONDON Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1248148 Description: Serone is seeking an experienced credit analyst that will be responsible for ongoing fundamental credit research covering the European high yield bond market. The candidate will also support the high yield portfolio manager and the Serone operations team with various duties related to the management of the HY bond fund and several discretionary managed accounts. The candidate will also gain exposure and is expected to contribute where possible to the other strategies managed at Serone such as structured credit, distressed, etc. The successful candidate will have experience in financial modelling and analysis, an understanding of the credit market and preferably prior buyside experience. We expect the candidate to have a ‘can do attitude’, a desire to learn and develop by taking on additional responsibilities, and to communicate clearly and concisely internally with the rest of the team. Contact: hy@seronecapital Regions: United Kingdom Roles: Analyst Markets: Corporate Bonds Industry: Experience Level: 3+ years Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: English Certifications: Title : Hedge Fund & Family Office Firm Seeking Analyst Deadline: 12/31/2013 Expiration Date: 01/05/2014 City: NEW YORK CITY Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1248268 Description: Hedge Fund & Family Office Investment Firm investing in equity and fixed income securities, derivatives and external funds seeking proactive, entrepreneurial candidates for an analyst role. Responsibilities include: * Investment research and due diligence * Portfolio management support (review of earnings information, building and updating financial models, attendance of calls, meetings and conferences) * Portfolio administration support (P&L, risk management and reporting) * Thematic/strategic research: asset class and market research, attendance of meetings with management teams, sell-side representatives and external fund managers The ideal candidate will possess: * Undergraduate degree from a competitive institution with strong academic record * 1-3 years of relevant work experience at a buyside investment firm (asset manager, hedge fund, family office) or sell-side equity research or corporate finance * Attention to detail, discipline and strong work ethic * Strong written and verbal communication skills Please provide CV and brief introduction via email at hfjunioranalyst@gmail No cover letter needed. Contact: Please provide CV and brief introduction via email at hfjunioranalyst@gmail No cover letter needed. Regions: New York City (US) Roles: Analyst Markets: Industry: Experience Level: Degrees: Departments: Skills: Languages: Certifications: Title : Director of Settlement Operations - Columbia Wanger Asset Management Deadline: 11/19/2013 Expiration Date: 01/05/2014 City: CHICAGO Salary: Expected Travel: 0% Job Id: 1248262 Description: Columbia Wanger Asset Management, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, is seeking a Director of Settlement Operations to join the firm in Chicago, IL. This individual is responsible for trade processing, daily trade reconciliation, research and resolution of trade discrepencies, clearance and settlement of currencies and equities in various world markets. Required Qualifications include: Bachelors degree, 10+ years relevant industry experience, knowledge of equity market clearing and settlement practices, familiarity with foreign currencies, and understanding of 17f5 regulations. Contact: Qualified candidates may view a full job description and apply by visiting joinameriprise and referencing Job #658BR. Regions: Central States (US) Roles: Investment Manager or Operations Markets: Equities Industry:
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