Role Title: Middle Office Trade Support - Junior Analyst

Permanent

Office location: London

Department overview:

The Junior Analyst role will be in the Middle Office Trade Support Group which sits within the wider Business Management team.

The Trade Support Group currently has teams in London, New York and Singapore directly supporting the Execution desk & Portfolio Managers (PM). The group supports all aspects of trade capture, trade flow across macro products and works closely with various internal groups (Operations, Risk, PC, Technology) to identify & resolve issues, enhance & integrate new processes and technology as well as help to establish & police best practices.

Role overview:

Sitting with the Execution desk and the London Middle office colleague, the candidate will be covering the EMEA Rates desk across London, Geneva, Dubai & Jersey offices with main responsibilities including:

• Timely & accurate booking of new trades that do not STP across futures, swaps, options as well as unwinds/novations /expiries and other trade life cycle events.
• Coordinate post-trade issues by liaising with various internal groups Operations, Risk, PC, Technology teams to resolve exceptions/trade flow/PnL & risk issues on the day
• Maintain clear communication with Execution and PMs when picking up items from the group chat / inbox and manage expectations of the end PM/owner as requests accumulate
• Ensure all daily tasks are complete before EOD and any pending items are handed over to regional MOTS team / Ops where relevant
• Escalate any issues timely to PMs and where appropriate London Execution or Manager
• Identify process gaps/inefficiencies and implement standardised & controlled process improvements across the asset classes
• Adherence to regulatory and firm compliance policies

Note: The team in London start at 8:00am working 4 days in office. The WFH day has to be coordinated with the team to ensure coverage. This role will not involve any execution or trading activity.

Experience required:

• Junior Analyst or Internship experience within an established Buy and/or Sell side organisation is required
• University Degree qualification or country equivalent
• Experience working with various internal/external teams managing / coordinating multiple tasks is preferred
• Basic knowledge of any Fixed Income product is an advantage

About you:

• Self-starter and problem solver
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritise & organise accordingly
• Strong communication skills, ability to communicate issues to different types of audiences
• Confident in dealing and liaising with Front office and Infrastructure teams
• Able to work effectively both individually & as part of a team

BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.

Role Title: Risk Manager

Department: Risk

Office location: London

Department overview:

The Risk Team is made up of Risk Managers and Analysts based in London. The team is responsible for oversight and risk management of the Funds positions and work closely with other departments including Risk Quants, Technology and Product Control.

Role overview:

BlueCrest Capital Management require a London based Risk Manager to support its Global Rates Trading Business. Responsibilities include:

• Overseeing Portfolio Managers within the Rates Trading business.
• A key part of the role is to monitor and interact with Portfolio Managers, to ensure trading adheres to their mandate in terms of sizing and appropriateness.
• Help monitor, produce and design risk reports across various levels (e.g. Individual Portfolios, Desk, Fund level)
• Perform detailed analysis on risk/pnl drivers using the firm’s internal systems and data.
• A key part of the role is to monitor and interact with Portfolio Managers, to ensure trading adheres to their mandate in terms of sizing and appropriateness.
• Be able to provide an independent assessment of a PM’s portfolio, and present findings clearly to Management.
• The candidate is expected to be proactive in the development of risk tools by working with Technology & Quant teams.
• Mentor junior team members.

Experience required:

• Significant relevant experience gained in IB or buy side within Risk or Sales/Trading
• Strong knowledge and deep experience in Rates or Credit Markets.
• Modelling Knowledge (Fixed Income Products, Pricing, VaR)
• Technology/Programming skills (Python/ SQL/VBA) are desirable.
• Excellent analytical skills, along with the ability to communicate and present complex information effectively

About you:

• Strong interpersonal skills to be able to build relationships with PMs whilst also having the authority to question and challenge them regarding portfolio risk and construction.
• Ability to collaborate and work across global offices and teams.

BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.

Job Title : Quant Researcher

Division: Front Office Technology

Reports To: Head of QR

Location: London

Department Overview:

The Quant Research team is a centralised function responsible for maintaining and enhancing core systems in BlueCrest. We support curve build across rates/fx/inflation/bond/commodity, rates vol calibration frameworks as well as maintaining and enhancing existing quant analytics libraries and timeseries data.

The QR team sits within the Front office technology group and liaises heavily with the desk and other support functions including RAD, Risk Dev and market risk managers

Role Overview:

The primary focus of this role is to work with the trading desks and risk management to meet any of their pricing, risk and market analysis needs. 

The role will require strong mathematical and programming skills with the core analytics libraries being written C# and C++. The successful candidate will be able to implement clean robust solutions in these core libraries and work collaboratively as part of a larger group wide development and desk facing team. A pragmatic approach has to be taken at all times. Key factors are; time to market, fit for purpose, and code reusability. 

This is an excellent opportunity for a delivery focused individual with solid quant research background and strong development skills to work directly with the trading desk without any bureaucracy or politics.

The business trades all asset classes but is primarily rates focused. Linear rates pricing experience is a minimum requirement for this role, but it also offers a unique opportunity to expand exposure to all asset classes and learn from some of the best traders in the world.

You must be comfortable driving requirements from inception to delivery and managing the relationship with the user throughout the full development life cycle.

Experience Required:

Technical Skills:

Essential:

• 5+ years working in front office trading environment
• Linear/Vol Rates knowledge
• Strong C#, C++ development experience (10+ years)
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Desirable:

• Fx, Credit, Commodities Equity derivatives, Bloomberg
• Python, SQL Server

BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.

Job Title: C# / Angular Developer
Location: London
Department: Technology
6 Month FTC

Role Description:

This developer role is within a small, dynamic team that develops applications for a number of different business areas including Treasury, Centralised Execution & Equities.

The systems and components cover a broad range of technologies, including Python, Node.js, C# REST services.  The front-end is delivered using Angular (modern) SPAs.

The Team also looks after Data Warehousing systems and are expecting to migrate some legacy warehousing technology to Snowflake next year.

The candidate should have some knowledge of financial instruments.

The team is looking to bring onboard a strong C# developer with Angular experience, but this is by no means the limit of the role’s responsibilities.

Skills and Experience

• Programming languages: C#, Typescript, Angular (9),
• Domain knowledge: Cross-asset, STP Trade-flow (execution venue through to settlement)
• Bonus: Snowflake

About You

• Self-starter who will drive resolutions and improvements rather than just wait for instructions and maintain the existing status quo.
• Excellent communicator, confident in front of users, able to direct discussions to rapidly understand issues.
• Strong sense of product-ownership.
• Confidence to step-up with production incidents and take appropriate risk-based actions when deemed necessary.

BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality. 

Job Title: RAD Developer
Location: London
Department: Front Office - RAD Technology
Permanent 

Department overview:

The front office RAD technology team are responsible maintaining and building trading desk tools, both bespoke to pods and general to a desk. The team sits within the Front office technology group which also contains Quant Research and the Risk and Data Technology teams.

Role Overview:

The primary focus of this role is to face off to the traders and to meet any of their RAD tool requirements. These requirements vary from the small e.g. risk reports using data outputted from core systems, to the large e.g. trading workflow and risk systems, scenario tools etc. Any technology can be used to fulfil these requirements and a pragmatic approach has to be taken at all times, key factors are; time to market, is it fit for purpose, code reusability. The traders prefer Excel front ends, hence there is a lean to this technology, but these excel front ends are generally underpinned by C# library functions, Mongo and SQL Server databases. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with front office experience to further grow their exposure to cross-asset products and to deliver a solution whose benefits are highly visible and desired by the business sponsors

Experience required: 

• At least 4 years working in the Finance and Technology arenas; ideally working in Front office development
• Proficiency programming in technologies such as C#, Excel, VBA and SQL.
• Demonstrated knowledge around Financial Instruments (such as Fixed Income or Derivatives)
• Familiarity with Python would be advantageous, as would wider financial knowledge (FX, Commodities, Equity)

Candidate Overview:

In this role you must be self-motivated and able to face off to senior business users on the trading desks and the risk desk. You must be able to gather requirements, design elegant but pragmatic solutions and implement them through to release. This is a highly technical role, requiring the ability to understand oo and how to build re-usable library functions within the code quant library framework. This implies that the candidate should be very comfortable with the full software development lifecycle and should be able to demonstrate adherence to best practices in all areas of their work. Delivery is key in this role as is the ability to balance rapid BAU change whilst progressing with longer term strategic development.

BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.