What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Operations Analyst position at Jane Street?
About the Position
We are expanding the subgroup within our Finance team who will manage and improve many of our daily activities and processes. We don’t require any finance background or other particular experience—we care more about your curiosity, enthusiasm, and how you think and learn.
Our Financial Resource Management team, like the rest of Jane Street, are problem solvers. Much of what we do is constrained optimization. Together, we decide how to efficiently allocate the firm’s capital, minimize costs, shuffle positions, and diversify funding sources. We also try to improve, streamline, and automate these solutions.
In this role, you’ll work closely with colleagues on the Financial Resource Management and Portfolio Finance subgroups, with other teams throughout the firm, and with external counterparties. As Finance Operations, you will help handle a range of tasks, including:
- Running existing processes, both manual and automated, to optimize positions and manage FX balances daily
- Monitoring activities and systems, and triaging any alerts
- Reconcile daily margin requirements with internal models
- Improving and automating existing processes to address new financing inefficiencies and automate manual parts of workflows
- Executing various funding trades
There is also ample room for growth in this position. As you gain experience in day-to-day operations, you'll independently make high-value, time-sensitive decisions, take increased responsibility for key processes, and design and implement long-term improvements. You’ll begin to think through how we approach exceptional cases and big market events.
About You
- 1-3 years of relevant professional experience within treasury, operations, risk or finance preferred
- Proactive, reliable, and conscientious, with keen attention to detail and organizational skills
- A team player with strong oral and written communication skills
- Able to learn quickly, follow policies and procedures, and exercise judgment and problem-solving to work independently
- Interested in working in a role focused on operational, day-to-day processes and real-time monitoring
- Comfortable building strong relationships with external partners
- Familiar with Excel and some basic programming (in any language), and willing to learn Python and SQL
- Numerate and comfortable using math to triage issues and make decisions
- Curious and eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, learn new things, and continuously improve
- Note: You will be required to take registration exams to obtain a series license after starting the job (this is not a prerequisite for applying)
The base salary for this role is $130,000 to $150,000. Base salary is only one part of Jane Street total compensation, which also includes an annual discretionary bonus.
Salary : $130,000 - $150,000
