Portfolio & Trading Assistant Job at Arena Investors I Quaestor Advisors, Miami, FL

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  • Arena Investors I Quaestor Advisors
  • Miami, FL

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Arena Investors, LP is a global investment management firm that seeks to generate attractive risk adjusted, consistent and uncorrelated returns by employing a fundamentals based, asset-oriented financing and investing strategy across the entire credit/equity spectrum in areas where conventional sources of capital are scarce.

Arena is looking to expand the PIPEs/Event-Driven/Arbitrage team through the addition of a Portfolio/Trading Assistant. In this role, this individual will work with the Portfolio Manager. Ideal candidates will be organized, self-motivated, resourceful and able to work effectively with all internal functional groups.

Responsibilities:

- Provide oversight of existing trading positions, conversion/warrant levels, and target levels.

- Provide real-time analysis of target universe of current/potential investments.

- Maintain credit risk and market risk analysis spreadsheets.

- Monitor news flow for any updates on investments, potential investments, industries, etc.

- Listen to relevant conference calls (deal announcements, earnings, sell-side analysis, expert calls) and attend conferences to enhance our investment research processes.

- Develop reporting tools to update Portfolio Manager intraday.

- Create and maintain various screening tools for potential investment opportunities.

- Maintain multiple outreach campaigns to target companies for potential investment opportunities.

- Assist in creating investment memos to be presented to the Investment Committee for approval to allocate capital to various investment opportunities.

- Assist in structuring transactions, negotiations and closing PIPE deals.

- Work with operations, legal, financial and accounting teams on process management, diligence, identifying errors, etc.

Requirements

The individual will have demonstrated an ability to work in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment with an ability to think broadly about the business, incorporating continual improvement of processes and procedures with a goal of excellence while focusing on accuracy and efficiency.

- BA (or equivalent) with finance, accounting, economic or quantitative focus

- Experience with merger arb/relative value trading/analysis or direct lending/PIPEs

- Ability to execute basic equity/credit/bond transactions

- Basic risk arbitrage analytics maintenance

- Knowledge of convertibles, bonds, bank debts, CDS, derivatives, options, etc.

- Strong written and oral communication skills

- 1-2 years PIPEs/trading experience

- Experience with Excel Macros or other computer science based automation is a plus

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