Credit Financing Specialist

Jane Street Jane Street · Quant · New York, NY · Portfolio Finance

This role supports and develops Jane Street's US corporate bond financing capabilities, requiring prior experience in corporate bond financing and securities lending, and external relationships with counterparties. The specialist will work with internal teams to manage constraints of a quantitative trading firm, execute real-time financing decisions, and improve long-term strategy. Responsibilities include optimizing financing terms, managing counterparty relationships, acting as a subject matter expert, and contributing to financing strategy. Fluency in Python, SQL, or other programming languages is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Working closely with trading desks and infrastructure teams to optimize the financing and securities lending terms of our credit portfolio
  2. Managing and developing relationships with new and existing external funding counterparties
  3. Being a reliable subject matter expert in the financing markets for investment-grade, high-yield, and convertible corporate bonds
  4. Helping to form our long-term financing strategy by improving and expanding our financing activity and capacity
  5. Working with all groups within our Finance department to find robust solutions to strategic and tactical problems

Skills

Required

  • corporate bond financing
  • securities lending
  • quantitative trading firm constraints
  • analytical skills
  • technical data analysis

Nice to have

  • Python
  • SQL
  • other programming languages

What the JD emphasized

  • prior experience in corporate bond financing and securities lending
  • meaningful external relationships with corporate bond financing counterparties
  • deep understanding of US corporate bond financing and securities lending markets
  • strong analytical skills and experience performing technical data analysis to solve problems