Product Controller (recent Graduate)

Product Controller (Recent Graduate)

Role Title: Product Controller (Recent Graduate)

Department: Product Control

Office location: London

9 Month Fixed Term Contract

Overview of the team/department:

The Product Control department is responsible for the production, analysis, publication and control of official daily P&L for all BlueCrest funds at a Portfolio Manager, Desk and Fund level, as well as oversight of monthly NAV production and approval of distribution of statements to investors.

The department has approximately twenty-four employees across three offices (London, New York and Singapore) with teams focused on both product control and valuation control of all major asset classes, with the overarching objective of developing innovative approaches to achieve best-in-class control of the business.

Role requirements:

This role forms an integral part of the Product Control team focused on the daily and month-end P&L process. Specific responsibilities include:

• Production of daily P&L across various trading desks, working closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and ensure timely and accurate delivery of the P&L.
• Ownership of the month-end NAV finalisation process in relation to those P&Ls including valuation verification.
• Ad hoc information requests from Portfolio Managers, management and external stakeholders.
• Involvement in process improvement and broader Product Control-wide transformation initiatives.

Experience required:

The ideal candidate will have the following profile:

• An individual who holds, or is close to completion of, a numerate focused degree
• A strong desire to gain experience in Fixed Income derivative and securities products.

In both cases the following are essential:

• Strong academic qualifications from a top-tier academic institution.
• Experience of MS Excel.

Desirable, but not essential, experience includes:

• Experience of common Visualisation tools, ETL tools and/or Python.

About you:

• You will be a self-starter comfortable with taking the initiative and independently driving forward competing priorities across a range of timescales.
• Working across teams is critical, for which you will have excellent communication and influencing skills, and will need to be comfortable building strong working relationships within Product Control, and with the Financial Reporting and Tech teams.
• You will have a growth mindset with a desire to continuously learn and to constructively challenge the status quo.