What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate, Finance Rotational position at Point72?
A Career with Point72’s Finance Team
The Finance team provides a broad range of timely, accurate, relevant, and objective financial information, advice, and services to its business partners, with commitment to the highest professional and ethical standards. Our team offers a dynamic and collaborative environment where our colleagues can learn at a fast pace and are rewarded with advanced opportunities both within Finance and across the Firm.
About the Finance Rotational Program
The Finance management team is looking to add a high-performing, versatile team player to our group. Over the course of 18 months, you will rotate through various groups within the Finance team including Corporate Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Analysis, Hedge Fund Accounting & Asset Allocation, Fund Reporting, and Payroll & Portfolio Manager Compensation. Successful candidates may also have the opportunity to rotate through other functions across the Firm including Strategic Implementation, Operational Risk, and Valuation.
What you’ll do
- Take responsibility for a broad range of complex processes, which may include forecasting, budgeting, preparing financial statements, managing system implementations, financial modeling, reporting covenants to large bank counterparties, assisting in the tax process for the founder/owner, preparing information for regulators and working with external auditors on complex accounting topics, calculating contractual performance bonuses, and return analysis.
- Creatively implement new techniques and direct projects in partnership with teams within finance and across the Firm that can improve our financial reporting, accounting, and forecasting processes while investigating errors or problems, identifying solutions, and grounding those solutions in thoughtful analytics.
- Present analytical findings in a clear, concise, and compelling manner that will guide action plans.
- Collaborate with teams and colleagues on day-to-day needs including the month-end close process, preparing investor risk reports, compensation process for portfolio teams and the owner’s monthly financial packages.
- Learn directly from senior finance team members and experts in the hedge fund industry as you rotate through different areas of the Firm.
- Obtain a deep understanding of the backbone of a successful hedge fund, which is based on the team’s ability to efficiently and effectively report, account, analyze and compensate.
What’s required
- 2-4 years of professional experience in public accounting, asset management, corporate finance and/or a relevant field
- Sound Excel skills to help enhance and streamline current processes
- Strategic approach to tackling complex problems, building thorough financial & analytical models, and performing high-quality research
- Comfort working closely with various levels of senior management with the ability to guide projects and teams
- Enjoy a fast pace environment and be looking to broaden your skill set at an accelerated pace
- Be adaptive to handle on-going changes in business needs and adjust approach in response
- Intellectual curiosity and interest in learning about different aspects of finance and accounting
- Commitment to highest ethical standards
We take care of our people
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
- Fully-paid health care benefits
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Volunteer opportunities
- Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT community
- Mental and physical wellness programs
- Tuition assistance
- A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more
About Point72
Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here.
The annual base salary range for this role is $100,000-$130,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
Salary : $100,000 - $130,000