Data Management Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Symmetry Investments

Symmetry Investments
Symmetry Investments
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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About Us

  • Symmetry Investments is a global investment company with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Jersey and Cayman Islands. We have been in business since 2014 after successfully spinning off from a major New Yorkbased hedge fund.
At Symmetry Investments, we seek to engage in intelligent risk-taking to create value for our clients, partners and employees. We derive our edge from our capacity to generate Win-Wins - in the broadest sense. Win-Win is our fundamental ethical and strategic principle.

By generating Win-Wins, we can create unique solutions that reconcile perspectives that are usually seen as incompatible or opposites, and encompass the best that each side has to offer:

We integrate fixed-income arbitrage with global macro strategies in a novel way.

We invent and develop technology that focuses on the potential of human-machine integration.

We build systems where machines do what they do best, supporting people to do what people do best.


We are creating a collaborative meritocracy: a culture where individual contribution serves both personal and collective goals - and is rewarded accordingly.

We value both ownership thinking AND cooperative team spirit, self-realization AND community.


Data is the lifeblood of an alternative asset manager - we use it to figure out our profits and losses each day, what our risk exposures are, to test new strategies and to understand what is happening in the markets in real-time versus historically.

It's also one of the largest cost centers of the firm, as data vendors have increased monetization of data that used to be free a decade ago.

The Data Management group, works very closely with Operations, Product Control, Risk, Trading and Research teams to ensure the smooth running of the firm, optimize our spending on data and maintain compliance with our regulatory and contractual obligations.


First 3-6 months:

- understanding the structure of market data, getting a picture of what our contractual relationships are and how the costs are being driven in market data
- understanding the licensing structure of data providers and exchanges, and other data providers
- helping with the administration around contract renewals and reporting obligations resulting from exchange and vendor licensing
- checking and processing of market data invoices via our inhouse Contract management platform, under the supervision of other team members
- ad hoc research projects on new providers for particular data sets, and assisting with testing, vendor negotiations and coordinating with other teams to onboard new data sets
- learning to use our project management platform and documenting how things are done, what agreements we have, our negotiations processes, tradeoffs when we make decisions and making sure instructions, documentation and processes are up to date
- managing entitlements, updating access and periodic reporting using our market data entitlement systems (EMRS, DACs)

What to Expect from our Interview Process

  • A meeting with a member of the team for an open discussion on your background, experiences and how you may fit into the team.
  • Iteration from there, based on the feedback from the interviews and any further interviews to try to figure out where you'd best fit within Symmetry and what role we can create for you.
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