What is the opportunity?
Polar Asset Management Partners is an alternative asset manager established in 1991 and headquartered in Toronto. With teams in Canada, US, and the UK, managing strategies across equities, credit, commodities, rates, and niche strategies we are committed to generating strong risk-adjusted returns.
What will you do?
Transaction structuring: Reviewing and executing new structured finance transactions, such as SRTs and asset-backed securitizations.
Credit analysis: Assisting in analyzing the creditworthiness of underlying assets and assessing the risk of structured products.
Financial modeling: Creating and maintaining financial models to support transactions and investment decisions. Developing and assessing portfolio stress analysis for transactions.
Due diligence: Working with Legal, Risk, and Structured Credit team to validate asset performance, risks and ensure compliance with transaction terms.
Project management: Develop project plans and coordinate the execution of key project / transaction steps across various groups including Legal, Operations, and Risk.
Portfolio management: Monitoring and reporting on portfolios, tracking cash flows, and analyzing investment performance on a monthly basis and quarterly basis.
Market monitoring: Staying informed on market data, industry news, and company news to support trading and investment decisions.
Who are you?
Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as finance, accounting, or economics or Legal Degree.
Work Experience: 3-5 years of experience within the financial industry, preferably but not necessarily related to Structured Credit or Structured Finance
Financial knowledge: Deep understanding of complex fixed-income structures like CLOs, ABSs and derivative structures.
Analytical skills: Strong analytical abilities, detail orientation, and experience with financial modeling.
Collaboration: The ability to work effectively in a team and consensus-driven environment.
Initiative: A high level of personal responsibility, initiative, and self-management.
Communication: Excellent communication skills to present findings, negotiate terms, and collaborate with various teams and external parties.
Why work with us?
We believe in development, mentorship, and training our people – We are a passionate, dynamic, and high-performing team who will support your development and help you get experience to learn and challenge yourself for professional and personal growth.
We provide a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package – Our total compensation package includes a combination of competitive pay, 20 days’ vacation, comprehensive health/vision/dental benefit package, monthly fitness allowance, a charitable matching program, numerous team-building events, and more.
At Polar, we strive to attract, develop, and retain an inclusive workforce that embraces different backgrounds, experience, and ideas.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Polar Asset Management Partners Inc. does not accept unsolicited candidate resumes or profiles from external sources such as recruitment firms, headhunters, or employment placement agencies with whom we do not have a contractual relationship. Any candidate information or resume received, directly or indirectly, from a headhunter, agency or recruiter with whom we do not have a contractual relationship will be disregarded, and, under no circumstance, will we pay any referral, placement, or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.
