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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