Verition Fund Management LLC ("Verition") is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
Job Title: Hedge Fund Trade Operations Associate - Power
Hedge Fund Operations Associate
The Hedge Fund Operations Associate is responsible for providing middle office services within the firm in a fast-paced environment. This entails communicating with portfolio managers, and other interested parties, assisting with trade capture, and fulfilling other operational tasks.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Trading, Risk, and Valuation teams to manage trade lifecycle events for an array of asset classes, with a specific focus on power products like futures, options, FTRs, and Load Servicing.
- Assist with manual trade bookings, booking weekly invoices, instructing collateral movements, reviewing reconciliations, and resolving breaks.
- Update static data, security masters, trades, and positions across multiple systems such as IVP Security Master, BBG AIM, Geneva, and proprietary systems.
- Liaise with the internal trading ops team and PMs if there are issues with trade representation from a trading platform.
- Raising issues to technology if certain applications or data feeds are down.
- Identify process gaps, and work with internal and external resources to create detailed requirements to solve issues.
- Performing other duties as may be requested by senior management.
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree; preferably with a concentration in finance, economics, or a related discipline
- 7+ years of relevant work experience.
- Knowledge of and familiarity with complex instruments (i.e. options, swaps, futures, FTRs, Load trading).
- Prior experience supporting power and natural gas trading is preferred, but not required.
- Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Self-starter with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong attention to detail.