Position: Trading Assistant
Team: Credit
Location: Norwalk, CT & New York, NY
Role Summary: The Credit Trading Assistant is a high-impact seat designed for a recent graduate who wants to become a credit trader. Domain knowledge will be taught on the desk. The role starts operationally - booking trades, reconciling positions, maintaining desk infrastructure - but rapidly expands into execution and idea generation as the candidate proves their reliability and market judgment
Key Responsibilities:- Reconciling morning, midday and EOD P&L and positions.
- Booking all trades ensuring accurate capture in OMS.
- Identify friction points in existing processes and propose automation or workflow improvements.
- Various one-off projects for the team.
Qualifications:- Extremely diligent self-starter, proactive and wants to learn.
- Composure under pressure, clear and direct communication, competitive instinct.
- Strong foundation in math, statistics, or financial theory.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, or a similarly rigorous quantitative discipline.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred) with demonstrated ability to build functional tools: scripts, dashboards, data pipelines, or simple web apps.
- Work in Norwalk 4-5x per week.
Salary Range
$100,000-$150,000 USD
