Become part
of the team.

Business operations at GSA encompass essential functions that drive operational efficiency, financial accuracy, and regulatory adherence. They include the management of trade execution, risk assessment, financial record-keeping, strategic budgeting, talent optimisation, and compliance with legal standards. This collective framework supports the firm's strategic goals and ensures a robust, compliant, and high-performing trading environment.

Regardless of your level of experience, if you’re talented in the areas of Compliance/Legal, Finance, HR, Office Management, Operations, Procurement, Recruitment or Trading Operations and wish to explore possibilities at GSA then we’re always open to making connections.

Unsure of where you might fit in? No problem. Send us your credentials regardless and it will be evaluated by one of the recruitment team here so we can check for you.

The Person

Our people are diverse, though we strive toward a few common traits:

• Conscientiousness: Your job really matters to us. We dig into issues and diagnose their cause, working effectively with colleagues to find immediate fixes and whenever possible, follow up with up with strategic solutions. You understand the value and importance of your role and are diligent in undertaking your responsibilities.
• Proactive and motivated. You thrive best when allowed to take initiative and possess a self-starter approach. You take pride in your work and look to perform to the best of your abilities.
• Interpersonal, collaborative and an effective communicator. Working at GSA requires effective collaboration with a range of colleagues, stakeholders and counterparties.
• Logical, numerate and possess a strong financial intuition: You seek to build upon strong critical thinking and analysis abilities with a deep understanding of your subject area and recognise the importance of context. You have a genuine interest in what we do and are naturally curious to build your understanding across multiple avenues of our business, how we operate and of the people working alongside you.
• Aptitude and adaptability. You strive to pick up and understand new concepts, systems, and strategies quickly.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise effectively. You enjoy crafting and working toward goals. You can efficiently collate, track, continually prioritise and proactively status report whilst managing the simultaneous resolution of many, often time-sensitive, issues.

Academic Requirements:

• We often find a good degree within an analytical field to be advantageous, but we are much more inclined to weight our evaluation toward your experience and career achievements when present.

The role is a technical assistant to the IT Infrastructure team, primarily supporting the helpdesk within the team. We are looking for someone who has solid basic IT skills (PC setup, plugging in and setting up workstations, connecting network cables, debugging physical PC issues) and experience with Windows and Linux. Extensive helpdesk or support experience is not required. A keen home PC user who is looking to learn new skills would be ideal.

Are you:

• Curious how quantitative traders aim to deliver superior long-term investment performance?
• A quantitative thinker with a deep interest in statistics, probability, and technology?
• Intrigued by developing performant and insightful solutions to challenging modelling problems?
• Keen to use logical reasoning and data to formulate and test hypotheses about the behaviour of financial markets?

What can you expect?

• An open-ended, difficult to solve problem. Specifically, building an algorithmic trading strategy.
• An accompanying mini-lecture where we candidly explain what quantitative trading really involves.
• Advice and support from instructors with industry experience of developing trading strategies.
• Prizes for the best performing strategies plus other goodies.
• Food and drink.

We are limited to 20 places. Places are allocated on a suitability basis.

Application deadline:

• 1 November 2024 at 5pm 

Where and when?

CAMBRIDGE, UK:

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 6:00pm-8:30pm

MR4, Centre of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Rd, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.