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First Derivatives is a leading provider of products and consulting services to the capital markets industry. Focused on financial institutions that work cross-asset, often with multi-system and/or high volume trading activities, the Company scopes, designs, develops, implements and supports a broad range of mission critical data and trading systems across front, middle and back-office operations.
We know that ensuring our people are well motivated, well rewarded and have the opportunity to develop their true potential is critical to meeting our varied client needs and our continued commercial success. We therefore encourage continued personal development both through our in house training programme (Capital Markets Training Programme) and externally accredited exams.
Working for First Derivatives
Now is a fantastic time to be joining First Derivatives plc. Despite challenging market conditions we have continued to build our business and assert our position as one of the leading capital markets consultancy and software providers. Our expansion plans include creating an additional 359 graduate positions!
Our Graduate Options Programme is our fast track consulting programme which combines intense theoretical Financial and Technical training with on the job experience working as a consultant on client sites globally!
We are seeking high calibre graduates from a range of backgrounds including Finance, Computer Science, Maths, Business, Physics and Engineering to join our team as Financial and Software Engineers.
• Support analyst for the Centralised Pricing; team at
Tier 1 Investment Bank
• Internal Fixed income pricing and electronic trading system
• Support front office and middle office users
• Responsible for publishing offerings to ECNs, electronic trading, posttrade
STP, Pricing
• Covers all fixed income products such as swaps, bonds, bills, cds, cdx
City you work in: New York - The best thing about FD is that they like to keep all their employees close to one another so you never feel like you're alone! NYC is such a great city. There is never any shortage of things to do, and anything you can ever think of is there. It's hard to believe I live here at times, and can't thank FD enough for this. Also I have the pleasure of living with the nicest people ever. In fact everyone over here is so nice, which is all the more important when you live far from home as they are your support network. FD definitely know how to pick the most suitable candidates.
Name: Saidhbh
Education:BSc (Hons) Financial Math. & Actuarial Science, MSc Corporate Finance (both from University College Cork)
Current role:I'm currently working with a large Hedge Fund (a fund of funds domiciled in the Cayman islands but with operations in London) Current work is mainly around a proprietary database - updating and researching information contained in the database. Also working closely with the risk and operational due diligence teams on smaller projects, again mainly research-based, primarily on hedge fund performance and strategies. I get to interact with colleagues working on all aspects of the hedge fund investment process so I’m finding it to be great exposure in a fascinating area of finance.
City you work in: : London - I'm really enjoying working in London - there's a great FD network over here so there's never a shortage of people to see. Working in the city is also a great experience - I work with people from a wide range of backgrounds so I'm learning about a lot of different business areas. Everybody works long hours but there's a great rush and a buzz about the city – it’s very energetic and vibrant.