What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trading Assistant position at Verition Fund Management LLC?
Position: Trading Assistant
Team: Credit
Location: Norwalk, CT & New York, NY
Company Overview:
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.
Role Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Trading Assistant to join a Credit team. The ideal candidate will have 1-4 years of financial services experience, with a strong academic background and a proven track record of excellence. This person will have exposure to all our bank counterparties and all Verition internal back office, middle office and risk professionals.
Key Responsibilities:
Team: Credit
Location: Norwalk, CT & New York, NY
Company Overview:
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.
Role Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Trading Assistant to join a Credit team. The ideal candidate will have 1-4 years of financial services experience, with a strong academic background and a proven track record of excellence. This person will have exposure to all our bank counterparties and all Verition internal back office, middle office and risk professionals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reconciling morning, midday and EOD P&L.
- Booking all trades and making sure they flow through properly.
- Handling trade volume and other counterparty reports.
- Various one-off projects for the team.
- Extremely diligent self-starter, proactive and wants to learn.
- Ideally 1-4 years in Finance (buy side or sell side), but not required.
- Understanding of back office systems a plus, but not required.
- Work in Norwalk 3-4x/week, 1-2x/week in NYC.
Salary : $75,000