Trading Platform Services Senior Analyst

Do you want to tackle the biggest questions in finance with near infinite compute power at your fingertips

GResearch is a leading quantitative research and technology firm with offices in London and Dallas.

We are proud to employ some of the best people in their field and to nurture their talent in a dynamic flexible and highly stimulating culture where worldbeating ideas are cultivated and rewarded.

This is a role based in our new Soho Place office opened in 2023 in the heart of Central London and home to our Research Lab.

The role

The Trading Platform Services (TPS) Team at GResearch is responsible for providing support services to the noninvestment functions of our customer managing internal teams at GResearch and managing new business initiatives.

As a TPS Senior Analyst you will support the delivery of the teams agenda focusing on strategic planning providing subject matter expertise to project and delivery managers and working with functional teams to drive the delivery of trading platform initiatives. This includes occasionally managing the delivery of crossfunctional special interest projects typically focused on business expansion.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Supporting the Deputy Head of TPS with business management tasks including establishing and tracking KPIs creating governance documents such as periodic board and management meeting updates and creating other adhoc reports
• Providing support for the delivery of a liquidity expansion agenda including working closely with the liquidity expansion team leads to understand the liquidity landscape and when necessary supporting the front office and research teams in answering questions to drive liquidity expansion efforts. This also includes performing business management tasks related to liquidity expansion such as aggregating data and developing materials for our monthly liquidity forum and inputting data into our liquidity intelligence portal
• Working closely with the central project management office to provide business insight to better drive the project management function and to support the firms governance process
• Supporting various group teams such as trading operations treasury and back office in general business management and administrative tasks including creating and maintaining a process document library for key processes and functions

Who are we looking for

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Experience working across multiple functional areas such as front office operations treasury risk management and market structure at an investment bank or nonbank liquidity provider with experience upgrading existing capabilities and delivering new functionality
• Basic understanding of systematic equity trading workflows including the ownership of responsibilities and handoffs between and downstream teams such as operations treasury and risk management
• Experience evaluating and documenting equity trading or operational workflows and business process
• Ability to work and effectively communicate with various stakeholders across the business including senior management
• Proven ability to work with different teams across the firm and coordinate time critical dependencies therefore the ability to quickly build strong relationships is key
• Expert in the use of JIRA as a workflow management tool

The following skills and experience are beneficial but not a requirement of the role:

• Knowledge of equity market structure
• An understanding of multiple asset classes including FX Fixed Income and Crypto as well as equity instruments (futures single name options index products and ETFs)

Why should you apply

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (viaJust Eat for Business and dedicated barista bar
• 30 days annual leave
• 9 company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycletowork scheme
• Monthly company events

GResearch is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideasdriven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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