We are looking for an IT Support Analyst Placement Student to join Aspect Capital, a global systematic investment manager based in London from summer 2025 to summer 2026 during their university degree.

NOTE: You must be currently studying an IT related course at university, and looking for a placement role.

Throughout your time with us you will be working on desktop and infrastructure technology. We don’t expect you to have an understating of all the technologies we use as we are able to teach those skills, although a curiosity in IT and some personal experience with PC troubleshooting and using Microsoft Windows and Office is essential.

Your Responsibilities:

• Initially the role will involve providing ‘first response’ to any technology issue, which means that you will log issues in our tracking system and allocate them to members of the team to resolve.
• Checking IT equipment in meeting rooms is in good order.
• Completing administrative tasks, including setting up new joiners accounts and computers, password resets and account permissions.
• Working with and supporting the Aspect Capital IT team in troubleshooting hardware and software issues.

Personal qualities:

• Excellent communication skills – you are the first point of contact for the team
• Customer focused
• Organisational skills – there are lots of interesting projects to get involved with
• Prioritisation – understanding what is important and what can wait
• Team-work

If you are looking for a one year placement role starting in the summer of 2024 and this job sounds of interest, we would love to hear from you.

This role is available to placement students for 13 months from summer 2025 until summer 2026.

Working as a key member of the Corporate Accounting Team within Finance you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of all payment cycle activities in a timely and efficient manner for the London and US offices. The role will also involve working closely with other Finance team members to assist in the completion of monthly bank reconciliations and month-end processes. This is an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to and a thorough understanding of how a Finance function works at an exciting and forward thinking company.

Accountabilities

• The position is responsible for the Accounts Payable function for the company
• Processing invoices, staff expenses, journals and bank reconciliations
• Managing the weekly payment run for all invoices and expenses.
• Maintaining the general ledger through the SunSystems accounting package as well as working with suppliers and the finance team to resolve related queries
• Managing the company bank accounts and expenses system
• Maintaining good records for all transactions and documentation relating to the Accounts Payable function
• Assisting other Finance team members to resolve issues across the department
• Maintenance of finance procedure documentation

Desired experience for the role

• Excellent numerical skills as well as strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• Organisational skills and strong attention to detail
• Effective communicator and relationship builder
• Knowledge of Excel, Microsoft Word and Outlook will be advantageous but not essential, we can train you
• Ability to be pro-active and identify and quickly resolve issues

Our strong preference is to receive your CV in PDF format, but also, we will only consider applications which include a covering letter. It doesn't have to be a long letter, but an indication of what you are looking for and what you hope to get out of your placement year would be great. Upload as one PDF via the attached link (CV and covering letter). We look forward to hearing from you.

Aspect Capital is a leading systematic investment manager based in London.

Our Trading Support Team performs a crucial role, sitting alongside our Execution Trading team, working very closely with our broader Technology team. We are looking for a Technologist with an interest in supporting in-house and third-party trading tools and systems. We will help you build your career by ensuring you have access to mentoring and professional skills courses to develop your technical and soft skills.

Your role:

No two days are the same, you will:

• Ensure the stability of trading systems through proactive and reactive monitoring, resolving issues efficiently
• Provide technological support on our in-house and third-party trading tools
• Onboard new markets and new execution venues
• Assist traders with trade-related queries and issues
• Provide effective communication of critical market events to colleagues, stakeholders, and clients
• Work in shift patterns plus occasional on-call night support

Your skills & experience:

• 2-3 years of experience in a Front Office Trading Support environment understanding the trading life cycle
• Good working knowledge of the following:
  • Unix, SQL, Bash, Powershell, command shell
  • FIX protocol
  • Monitoring tools such as Opsgenie, Zenoss, Grafana
• Exposure to FxSpotStream, Bloomberg, Jira, Confluence

If you have an understanding of the trading life cycle, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and have the ability to prioritise multiple tasks, we would love to hear from you. Please upload a copy of your CV to the accompanying link, we prefer a PDF where possible.

Please note we are currently unable to sponsor candidates who require a Tier2 visa.

Our 2025 Internship application process is now open.

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An opportunity has become available for a graduate to join our Middle & Back Office team (MBO). This role works across our MBO which incorporates Fund Accounting, Treasury and Operations where you will have the chance to learn how a successful systematic investment manager runs these functions.

This is an entry level role, we will teach you all you need to know via courses, on the job training and funding further professional qualifications should you wish to do them. Working closely with everyone across the MBO, you will develop an understanding of each team's daily and monthly processes.

Your Responsibilities

• Assist with the day to day running of the Middle and Back office (Operations, Treasury and Fund Accounting).
• Manage queries from internal and external parties.
• Escalate issues to more experienced team members
• In time, manage external relationships with counterparties and administrators.
• Assist with new account & asset on-boarding processes.
• Develop a deep understanding of Operational risk and subsequent controls.
• Improve manual processes through automation.

Your Experience

We don't expect you to have any relevant experience, but a numerate degree and completion of a placement year or internship will be an advantage.

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity we would love to hear from you.

Please note we are currently unable to sponsor candidates who require a Tier2 visa.