INTRODUCTION
PCA Investments is an investment management firm with an initial capital exceeding $500MM USD. Established in January 2011, it is wholly owned by PCA Investments Holding Co, Ltd. PCA Investments invests in stocks, bonds, currencies, futures and OTC derivatives in global equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets. It aims to generate consistent and superior risk-adjusted returns that are uncorrelated to major market indices.
INVESTMENT
PCA Investments offers a multi-strategy platform implementing Pan-Asia Equity, Global Fixed Income, and Global Macro investment strategies. For its Pan-Asia Equity strategy, it invests primarily in greater China focused stocks, private placements, convertible securities and derivatives. It also invests in Japanese stocks, convertible securities and derivatives. For its Global Fixed Income strategy, it invests primarily in US Dollar and Japanese Yen fixed income and OTC derivatives markets using its relative value investment strategy. It also intends to expand into Chinese domestic fixed income markets. For its Global Macro strategy, it invests primarily in global FX and futures markets in stock indices, interest rates, bonds, foreign currencies and commodities. This multi-strategy platform operates within a comprehensive risk management framework using a proprietary capital allocation scheme to achieve capital preservation when global financial markets are under stress. This unique investment process results in superior risk-adjusted returns in normal markets and preserves capital in crisis markets.
MANAGEMENT
PCA Investments is founded and managed by a seasoned investment team with proven records and experiences from top US investment funds and investment bank proprietary trading units. The investment principals all came with substantial expertise and proven ability to generate profits in equity, fixed income and macro investing and trading after spending many years working in similar settings and capacities at US investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, to name a few. The operations team came with deep local knowledge and operating experience in China and Hong Kong after spending many years in building and conducting fund operations in China and Hong Kong.
RECRUITING
PCA Investments is looking for talented individuals for both its investment and operations teams in its office in Beijing, China. They include: execution traders and trading assistants, equity analysts, quantitative researchers, trading system developers, risk managers, risk management system developers, assistant CFOs, financial accountants, and middle office and back office operations analysts.
CONTACT
PCA Investments China, Ltd: No. 40 Liangmaqiao Road, Building B, Level 4, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100016, China.
Contact phone: Mr. Fan Jinhua, 86-10-8444-6698 extension 8011 email: jhfan@
Ms Yang Jing, 86-10-84446698 extension 8021 email: jyang@
JOB OPENING
Collateral Management Associate
Job Description
The candidate reports to the head of back office operations. The candidate will be responsible for the review and verification of the collateral transactions taken by the fund administrator before we approve them. The main responsibilities will be:
- Verify daily collateral movement
- Verify daily mark-to-market data with fund valuation source
- Ensure that evaluation & collateral monitoring adhere to the Credit policy and procedures
- Track and monitor collateral positions, initial margin, variation margin, posted collateral, and collateral held by counterparties
- Ensure that payments are made only after confirming that fund has enough collateral and approval is given authorized staff
- Report and escalate the situation in case of any margin shortfalls
- General communication with counter parties, IT Support, Operations, Front Office, Legal and fund administrators
- Work on special projects as needed
Qualification:
- A Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent English communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Ability to organize, prioritize tasks and work in a deadline-oriented environment
- Good understanding of Derivative, Fixed Income and Repo products
- Candidates with 1 to 3 year of related experience preferred
Fund Accounting Associate
Job Description
The candidate reports to the head of back office operations. The candidate will be responsible for the reviews and verification of the daily and monthly NAV (Net Asset Value) and P&L (profit and loss) reports produced by the fund administrator. The main responsibilities will be:
- Reconcile funds cash with back office accounting system
- Reconcile the funds positions and securities with prime broker and counterparties
- Check and verify profit and loss statements on a daily basis
- Assist with month-end valuation process
- Review and verify daily and monthly NAV report produced by fund administrator
- Check and verify fund income and expense report
- General communication with fund administrators, IT support, operations, trading desks, and legal
- Work on special projects as needed
Qualification:
- A Bachelor's degree in Accounting with 1 to 3 years of related experience
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent English communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Ability to organize, prioritize tasks and work in a deadline-oriented environment
- Good understanding of fixed income, equity, FX, future, option and other derivative financial products
- Candidates with 1 to 3 year of related experience preferred
Trade Assistant
Job Description
The candidate reports to portfolio manager or head trader. The candidate will be responsible for assisting trade booking and trade settlement process. The main responsibilities will be:
Responsibilities
- Book trades into trade entry system
- Reconcile daily trades against counterparty confirmations
- Resolve front office vs back office/prime broker trade breaks
- Investigate and clean up fails and breaks
- Manage product static data
- Perform P&L, risk analysis anomaly checks
- Produce timely and accurate trade export files to fund administrator
- Produce timely and accurate financial reports
- Helping portfolio manager and head trader to develop trading strategies and ideas
- Helping with assessing and monitoring the portfolio risks
- May require night shift to cover US and European trading hours
- May work on other special projects as needed
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Mathematics, Business, Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Strong computer skills
- Strong team player and able to work effectively in a team environment
- Good written and Spoken English communication skills
- Computer skills with knowledge of spreadsheets and word processing
Analytical Programming
Job Description
The candidate reports to the project manager. The candidate will be responsible for life cycle management of the project he/she is responsible
Responsibilities
- Help building trading and research platforms for different trading desks
- Build internal trade booking and risk valuation platform
- Develop application to automate the daily risk valuation tasks.
Qualifications:
· A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or related fields and experience in using programming languages of Java or C , and scripting languages including Python, Perl and UNIX shell
· Solid understanding of Object Oriented design concept and practice
· Strong analytical skills and exceptional programming skills
· Prior exposures to financial data, statistics or quantitative techniques are a plus
· Understand database technology and familiar with SQL
· Good English communication skills
Quantitative Research
Job Description
The candidate reports to the portfolio manager or lead trader. The candidate will be responsible for assisting the trading desk to develop and verify the trading model.
Responsibilities
· Help conducting quantitative research and building trading models
· Verify and adjust the trading models
· Develop research tools
Qualifications:
· A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in related engineering and science fields
· Familiar with analytical packages such as MATLAB and S-PLUS
· Experience of using programming languages of Java, C , Python, Perl and UNIX shell
· Prior experience in the financial industry is preferred but exceptional entry level candidates will also be considered