Hedge Fund Business Change Graduate Analyst

Our Client:

Our client is a global multi-asset investment firm, focused on the pursuit of high, durable risk-adjusted returns for investors. Their expertise spans strategies in all major asset classes and they draw on deep foundations in global macro trading.

The key to what they do is synthesis. This requires close collaboration across disciplines, where macro and micro research is highly integrated with multi-asset trading expertise. Together, they form an investment ecosystem that spurs opportunity-driven and decisive risk-taking across public markets.

Business Change:

The Business Change team consists of four individuals who focus on enabling their Portfolio Managers and Portfolio Trader specialists to express their trading ideas. The team is collectively responsible for solving ‘how’ to do something new (both in the real world and within our clients infrastructure). They work out how to trade new products in new places, guide entirely new business builds from technology selection exercises through to launch and get counterparties onboarded. No day is the same.

The Business Change team are not, however, just reactive to the needs of the Front Office. The team is at its best when it connects Front Office teams with developments that could be opportunities; for example, where barriers to international investing in a country’s stock market are lifted. The team also scans for changes in the external environment and translates these into the necessary change work. This can also mean keeping a finger on the pulse of hot trends, such as tokenisation, 24/7 trading and prediction markets.

The Opportunity

This 18-month Graduate Programme will provide you with structured learning and development opportunities, unique insight into how to make change happen in a fast-paced organisation, and real responsibility from early on – closely supported by your team, manager, mentor, buddy and wider graduate cohort.

The role will sit within the Business Change team. You will learn how the firm is structured, how its investment process works, and what/how it trades. Armed with that, you should expect to start handling the onboarding of counterparties (including the regulatory obligations). Whilst learning how to use our internal tooling to make efficiency and workflow improvements, you should expect to progress to change facilitation work from small to big multi-team efforts by the end of the Graduate Programme.

What are we looking for?

Academic Excellence

• Proven academic success with A*/A grades at A-level or equivalent.
• On track for a 1st Class degree or international equivalent in a STEM or Economics/Finance subject at a leading university.

Comfortable with Ambiguity

• Ability to adapt an understanding of how things work as you discover new information.

Financial Acumen

• Demonstrated understanding of financial concepts. Desire to build a career on the buy-side.

Team Players

• Strong teamwork skills with the ability build relationships both inside and outside of the firm.

Strong Communicators

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to translate between different disciplines talking about the same topic from their own perspectives.

Intellectually Curious

• Pragmatic approach to problem solving. Inquisitive, sharp and enthusiastic; you identify and check evidence not opinions.