Open vacancies
Settlements/Operations Specialist
Duties:
- Settlement of SPOT trades with securities, REPO trades, derivative trades
- Settlement of non-trade orders
- Perform assets reconciliations with Custodians/Banks/Brokers
- Communication with Custodians/Banks/Brokers/Counterparties
- Preparation of internal reports
Skills:
- A degree in Economics/Finance/ etс.
- Basic knowledge of financial instruments, Investment Firm organization and structure
- Good MS office knowledge
- Attention to details and commitment to high quality/error free work
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and pressure
- Teamwork
- Desire to work and good repute
- Fluency in English and Russian
- CySEC certificate Basic/Advanced will be considered as advantage.
Benefits:
- 21 days of annual leave
- Private Medical Insurance for all family members
- Free parking
- Free drinks, fruits, vegetables, sweets in the office
- CySEC Exams & training before exams
- CPD obligatory annual training
- Language Courses
If you’re interested, please send your CV to hh@skanestas.com
Middle Office Specialist
Duties:
- To act as a link between the trade desk and back office and assist both divisions
- Position management
- Corporate action processing
- Collateral management
- Communication with clients & counterparties
- Handling of client orders
- Preparation of reports (APA, Internal, Client, Regulatory)
Skills:
- A degree in Economics/Finance/related field
- Basic knowledge of financial instruments, Investment Firm organization and structure
- Good MS office knowledge
- Attention to details and commitment to high quality/error free work
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and pressure
- Teamwork
- Desire to work and good repute
- Fluency in English and Russian
- CySEC certificate Basic/Advanced
Benefits:
- 21 days of annual leave
- Private Medical Insurance for all family members
- Free parking
- Free drinks, fruits, vegetables, sweets in the office
- CySEC Exams & training before exams
- CPD obligatory annual training
- Language Courses
If you’re interested, please send your CV to hh@skanestas.com
MiFID compliance assistant
Full time, work from the Company office.
A traditional brokerage firm based in Limassol, Cyprus, wishes to recruit an experienced MiFID compliance assistant.
The candidate will not do the reporting as such, but shall be required to analyse the difficult nuances of regulatory reporting, a strong understanding of instruments and ability to work with reporting technical standards is needed. This is an opportunity to join a company with vision and targets. The opening is due to growing needs and horizons.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Perform Quarterly / Monthly / Daily submission of various Regulatory Reports (e.g. EMIR, SFTR, MiFIR, APA, etc.);
- Assist with any Regulatory Reporting enquiries received from the National Competent Authority, senior management, counterparties, or clients;
- Involvement in Regulatory Reporting Systems’ improvements / proactivity for automation and process efficiency;
- Data quality/correctness checks on big data volumes;
- Daily monitoring of Regulatory Reporting reconciliations;
- Daily instrument MIFID eligibility check;
- Perform certain types of transaction monitoring as assigned by the Compliance Officer, e.g. monitoring of best execution automatic report, monitoring of personal transactions automatic report, monitoring of anti-market abuse automatic report.
Candidate profile:
- Profound understanding of financial instruments (transferable securities, derivatives, shares, bonds, understanding the concepts of repurchase transactions, collateral arrangements, clearing, passporting);
- Profound understanding of MiFID II, European regulatory reporting requirements (best execution and order handling, market manipulation, conflict of interests, ongoing monitoring, regulatory reporting (MiFIR, EMIR, SFTR), product governance, suitability);
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar position in an investment services field;
- Fluency in Russian and English languages at a professional level (Greek is an advantage);
- Proficient in the use of Excel;
- University/college degree in a related field or any tertiary education;
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work independently.
Company benefits:
- 21 days of annual leave;
- Private medical insurance for all family members;
- Corporate outings;
- Remuneration package will depend on the skills and expertise of the candidate;
- CySEC Exams & training before exams;
- Language Courses;
- Free parking;
- Free drinks, fruits, vegetables, sweets in the office;
- Relocation package for all family.
Notes:
- If a candidate has no experience in regulatory reporting and/or has no understanding of financial instruments, we do not want to receive their cv’s.
- Successful candidates will be offered a small test.
- Mind the key points in candidate search shall be (1) the experience in regulatory reporting and (2) deep understanding of financial instruments and reporting requirements.
- Working from distance will not be possible.
- Work permit may be offered by the Company to a successful candidate.
What we do not require: onboarding, KYC, AML. The AML and onboarding functions are fully separated from MiFID in our firm and the employee we are looking for will not be doing any of these.
We shall collect internal and external due diligence and references. Successful candidates shall be required to provide a reference letter from a previous employer.
If you’re interested please send your CV to hr@skanestas.com
Legal Officer
Full time, work from the Company office.
Reporting to the Head of Legal Department / Senior Management.
A traditional brokerage firm based in Limassol, Cyprus, wishes to recruit an experienced Legal Officer. The successful candidate will have 3 years of experience in similar role in a financial services firm or a bank. You will be providing legal advice on business matters and operational needs of the Company. This is an opportunity to join a company with vision and targets. The opening is due to growing needs and horizons.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Assisting businesses to prevent, navigate, and resolve legal issues;
- Assisting and advising businesses on establishing their company’s structure, policies, objectives, and procedures for their business operations;
- Ensuring all relevant laws and outcomes are understood and obeyed by businesses;
- Researching and resolving legal disputes through the analysis of relevant laws, argument development, forming a legal position;
- Drafting, reviewing, completing, and filing legal paperwork related to business operations;
- Examining and reporting any potential or existing legal issues to the relevant authorities;
- Negotiating contract terms, transactions on behalf of the businesses involved;
- Ensuring all business processes, strategies, and actions comply with all relevant local and international laws;
- Monitor legal risk in documentation and giving guidance on the acceptable assumption of risk;
- Explain the law and give legal advice;
- Draft, review and manage resolutions, contracts, agreements, and other internal legal documentation;
- Litigation experience in Cyprus would be an advantage.
Candidate profile:
- University/college degree in law. As an option – a postgraduate degree in any commercial law discipline, or any vocational title;
- At least 3 years of experience in a legal role in financial services or banking;
- Required areas of legal expertise: strong knowledge of civil law and Cyprus law. Knowledge of finance law is a must. Knowledge of Russian law basics and UK law basics is an advantage;
- Fluent spoken and written English and Russian languages are a must;
- Experience in drafting, negotiating, and reviewing legal documents;
- Analytical thinker with strong conceptual and research skills, attention to detail;
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines;
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Company benefits:
- 21 days of annual leave;
- Private medical insurance for all family members;
- Corporate outings;
- Remuneration package will depend on the skills and expertise of the candidate.
Notes:
- Successful candidates will be offered a small test;
- Working from distance will not be possible;
- Work permit may be offered by the Company to a successful candidate;
- We shall collect internal and external due diligence and references. Successful candidates shall be required to provide a reference letter from a previous employer.
If you’re interested please send your CV to hr@skanestas.com
Data Scientist (Quantitative Analyst)
A Quantitative Analyst is needed for the full-time position in Limassol, Cyprus at traditional broker/Investment Company (non-forex).
Requirements:
- Higher education in statistics, mathematics or computer science
- From 2 years of practical experience in the position of Quantitative Analyst / Data Scientist. The presence of real cases in the portfolio – working with big data and their practical application
- Strong knowledge in statistics, calculus, linear algebra, probability theory, machine learning
- Knowledge of the Python programming language at the Middle + and higher level (advanced knowledge of libraries is required: numpy, pandas, skipy, statsmodels, one of the ML libraries – sklearn, tensorflow, keras, pytorch)
- Object Oriented Programming – Advanced
- Working with API (socket, get / rest requests)
- Tuning the code in terms of maximizing the speed of work (multithreading, lambda expressions, etc., redistribution of the computational load of the CPU – GPU)
- Database administration, confident knowledge of PostgeSQL, advanced knowledge of the T-SQL language (writing complex queries, procedures, triggers)
- Knowledge of MATLAB, R, C ++ languages will be an advantage
- Good communication skills in English (written and oral). Knowledge of the Russian language is a plus
- Experience with Bloomberg / CQG / TWS terminals is a plus
Duties:
- Creation of complex trading algorithms, statistical models
- Conducting in-depth analysis of data in order to identify patterns for use in real exchange trading
- Working with databases: filling, error control, optimization, backup
- Working with API of various software products and resources
- Writing desktop applications for data management tasks, visualization of algorithms, notification systems, etc.
- Generation of ideas in the direction of the development of all systems, participation in brainstorming
Company benefits:
- The company offers its employees assistance in moving to Cyprus (assistance in finding accommodation, obtaining a visa, etc.)
- Competitive remuneration package
- Free medical insurance
- Comfortable office, advanced hardware and software
- Friendly team
If you’re interested please send your CV to hh@skanestas.com
Trader
Trader needed for the full-time position in Limassol, Cyprus at traditional broker (non-forex) Investment Company.
Duties:
- Client orders execution
- Generating trade ideas
- Enhancing trading infrastructure
- Participating in other projects of the company
Qualifications and Experience:
- University Degree in Math/Finance/Financial Services will be considered as advantage;
- 2 -5 yrs experience;
- Holder of CySEC Advanced Certificate or willing to pass it within 3 month time is an advantage;
- Track record is an advantage. Real account.
- Good communication skills in English, written & verbal.
- Russian language knowledge is an advantage
- Teamwork and fast learning skills
Special Qualifications Requirements:
If you’re interested in Trader vacancy, please send your CV to hh_trading@skanestas.com
