ETF Pricing Analyst

Virtu Financial • Austin, TX

3d

About The Position

As a leading financial technology firm, Virtu leverages cutting-edge technology to deliver liquidity to global markets as well as innovative, transparent trading solutions and industry standard-setting analytics tools to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide. Virtu offers a dynamic, meritocratic environment with a flat hierarchy. No finance background is necessary or expected. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to kick start a career in the financial technology space. This role offers an excellent opportunity to become an exchange-traded fund (ETF) expert. Our ETF Pricing Specialists work closely with our traders and ETF issuers to understand their products and pricing methodologies. They build models to accurately price funds in many assets including commodities, equities, fixed income and emerging asset classes like cryptocurrencies. They deliver on time accurate pricing working in tandem with the trading team to deliver best in class pricing models.

Requirements

• Excellent academic background. All subjects welcome but hard sciences preferred (computer science, math, physics, statistics and related fields).
• Programming experience is required (Python, SQL, Java or C++ are a plus).
• The ability to communicate information precisely.
• A person who identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction.
• Highly motivated and tenacious individual, with a proven ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team.
• Team player: authentic, genuine person who is capable of working towards collective goals.

Nice To Haves

• No finance background is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Build models to accurately price funds in many assets including commodities, equities, fixed income and emerging asset classes like cryptocurrencies.
• Deliver on time accurate pricing working in tandem with the trading team to deliver best in class pricing models.
• Understand ETF products and pricing methodologies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed