Trading Desk Coordinator

Jane Street Jane Street · Quant · London, United Kingdom · Workplace Services & Experience

This role is for a Trading Desk Coordinator at Jane Street, a financial services firm. The coordinator will support trading desks by managing office operations, logistics, integrating new hires, coordinating social events, organizing learning and development classes, and managing desk relocations. The role requires strong organizational skills, proactivity, and a hospitality mindset.

What you'd actually do

  1. Seamlessly integrating new hires onto the desk and coordinating logistics for visitors
  2. Coordinating social events for teams in Trading (e.g., year-end events and small group dinners)
  3. Organising learning and development classes for the desk (e.g., coordinating training sessions, facilitating feedback processes, arranging speakers and knowledge-sharing sessions)
  4. Managing desk relocations and space planning for the trading floor (e.g., coordinating with various teams on seating assignments, allocating desks for travelling team members)
  5. Engaging closely on broader trading coordination efforts to build connection, improve internal communications and streamline processes across the firm

Skills

Required

  • bachelor's degree
  • 3-5 years of relevant experience in corporate administration or office management
  • comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
  • highly organised
  • exceptional attention to detail
  • no job too small mindset
  • able to work independently
  • proactively follow up to close the loop on tasks and projects
  • hospitality mindset
  • enjoy helping people
  • building relationships
  • finding creative ways to solve problems
  • able to exercise sound judgement
  • be discreet with sensitive information
  • can work some early morning and evening hours on occasion
  • excellent written and verbal communicator
  • Strong with G Suite
  • willing to learn new computer systems
  • Fluent in English

Nice to have

  • project management experience

What the JD emphasized

  • financial services preferred
  • fast-paced environment
  • highly organised with exceptional attention to detail
  • no job too small mindset
  • work independently and proactively follow up
  • hospitality mindset
  • finding creative ways to solve problems
  • exercise sound judgement
  • discreet with sensitive information
  • work some early morning and evening hours on occasion
  • excellent written and verbal communicator
  • Fluent in English