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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.

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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

Data is critical to our quantitative trading business. We are looking for a Data Operations Specialist to work alongside the data engineers in our Data Services Group to ensure the integrity of the data used in the development and trading of our systematic strategies. Your responsibility will be to identify, manage, and remedy data integrity issues as they arise. This role involves both reactive and strategic work, such as managing multiple issues requiring fast-paced diagnostic analysis and working with engineers to create strategic solutions to automate the alerting and resolution of issues with predictable signatures.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve failures that arise from automated data-quality checks, such as erroneous prices, by cross-referencing with other sources and patching in corrected values.
• Liaise with data vendors about missing/late data, access issues, and incorrect data.
• Source and maintain metadata that underpins DSG data extracts and services, such as setting up a new Future or ETF, which requires sourcing multiple vendor codes and sanity checking the data generated before it goes into production.
• Provide front-line helpdesk support to researchers and conduct initial investigations.
• Work with software engineers to develop strategic resolutions to frequently recurring issues.

About You

• Insatiably curious and self-motivated, willing to question the status quo and improve processes.
• Conscientious and diligent in executing your responsibilities.
• Possess logical, numerical, and financial intuition with a deep understanding of the relevant data.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and able to collaborate with software engineers, researchers, portfolio managers, and external data vendors respectfully and effectively.
• Highly organized and able to efficiently collate, track, continually prioritize, and proactively status report while managing the simultaneous resolution of many time-critical issues.

Skills and Experience

• Experience analysing data using Python/SQL and motivated to improve coding skills beyond basic necessity.
• General understanding of finance with a natural interest in the sector, such as futures contracts, their purpose, basis, how they relate to underlying instruments, term structures, expiries, and the concepts of fair value, contango, and backwardation.
• A good degree within an analytical field, not necessarily a mathematical or scientific one although we often find this to be advantageous.

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.