Investment & Trading Analyst - Equities - Family Office - South Melbourne

Collins Executive Recruitment has been exclusively mandated to support a prestigious and growing Family Office based in South Melbourne. Their talented investment team invest across various asset classes, including direct global equities and derivatives, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, credit and real estate.

Due to the continued growth of assets under management, a position has opened for an Investment Analyst to primarily support their listed equity strategies. Their current portfolio of listed strategies includes long-term global equities, technical macro, high dividends, volatility hedging, and quantitative ETFs.

Upon successful hire, you will be involved in trade execution, financial modelling, valuation, portfolio construction, portfolio management, company and economic research, backtesting current strategies and researching new strategies.

This is a rare opportunity to join a talented and growing investment team with permanent capital and a flexible investment mandate covering listed and unlisted investments across Australia and international markets.
  
Upon successful hire, you will be involved in:

• Trade order and execution via Enfusion and Bloomberg EMSX
• Monitoring trading signals and distributing daily notes to the broader team
• Optimising and improving existing trading strategies and algorithms
• Backtesting new trading strategies and algorithms
• Designing, building and maintaining complex models to support investment research and strategy
• Analysing current market, economic and broad investment trends
• Attending and contributing to Investment Committee (IC) meetings
• Collaborating with the Reporting Analyst on operational and performance reporting tasks
• Ad hoc general investment support for the wider portfolio

The successful candidate will have the following skills & qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in actuarial studies, economics, computer science, finance, mathematics or similar
• Experience in a relevant investment or markets-related role
• Strong research, analytical and programming skills
• Experience with Excel and financial modelling
• Reasonable knowledge of investments, accounting and economics
• Working towards a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification is advantageous
• Experience with trade order and execution management systems (OEMS) is advantageous
• Experience with Bloomberg and Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) is advantageous

Candidate attributes:

• Passion for financial markets and trading
• Fast learner and inquisitive
• Team-orientated with the ability to work autonomously
• Detail and process-orientated
• Highly accountable with a strong work ethic
• Comfortable in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Effective communicator (both verbally and in writing) to a variety of stakeholders

Work environment:

• Entrepreneurial, dynamic and collaborative
• Minimum three days in office, with the ability to work from home for two days
• Occasional tasks outside of regular working hours
• Working closely with a small investment team, family members and external IC members

Would you like to hear more? Please send your CV to ******@collins-executive.com.au to be considered for this and other relevant opportunities. All applications and conversations are confidential.
Additional information

• Primarily focused on global listed equities (trading and fundamental)
• Gain exposure to other asset classes such as private equity, venture capital etc
• Learn from excellent mentors with deep business and investment experience.