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of the team.

Business operations at GSA encompass essential functions that drive operational efficiency, financial accuracy, and regulatory adherence. They include the management of trade execution, risk assessment, financial record-keeping, strategic budgeting, talent optimisation, and compliance with legal standards. This collective framework supports the firm's strategic goals and ensures a robust, compliant, and high-performing trading environment.

Regardless of your level of experience, if you’re talented in the areas of Compliance/Legal, Finance, HR, Office Management, Operations, Procurement, Recruitment or Trading Operations and wish to explore possibilities at GSA then we’re always open to making connections.

Unsure of where you might fit in? No problem. Send us your credentials regardless and it will be evaluated by one of the recruitment team here so we can check for you.

The Person

Our people are diverse, though we strive toward a few common traits:

• Conscientiousness: Your job really matters to us. We dig into issues and diagnose their cause, working effectively with colleagues to find immediate fixes and whenever possible, follow up with up with strategic solutions. You understand the value and importance of your role and are diligent in undertaking your responsibilities.
• Proactive and motivated. You thrive best when allowed to take initiative and possess a self-starter approach. You take pride in your work and look to perform to the best of your abilities.
• Interpersonal, collaborative and an effective communicator. Working at GSA requires effective collaboration with a range of colleagues, stakeholders and counterparties.
• Logical, numerate and possess a strong financial intuition: You seek to build upon strong critical thinking and analysis abilities with a deep understanding of your subject area and recognise the importance of context. You have a genuine interest in what we do and are naturally curious to build your understanding across multiple avenues of our business, how we operate and of the people working alongside you.
• Aptitude and adaptability. You strive to pick up and understand new concepts, systems, and strategies quickly.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise effectively. You enjoy crafting and working toward goals. You can efficiently collate, track, continually prioritise and proactively status report whilst managing the simultaneous resolution of many, often time-sensitive, issues.

Academic Requirements:

• We often find a good degree within an analytical field to be advantageous, but we are much more inclined to weight our evaluation toward your experience and career achievements when present.

The role is a technical assistant to the IT Infrastructure team, primarily supporting the helpdesk within the team. We are looking for someone who has solid basic IT skills (PC setup, plugging in and setting up workstations, connecting network cables, debugging physical PC issues) and experience with Windows and Linux. Extensive helpdesk or support experience is not required. A keen home PC user who is looking to learn new skills would be ideal.

Are you:

• Curious how quantitative traders aim to deliver superior long-term investment performance?
• A quantitative thinker with a deep interest in statistics, probability, and technology?
• Intrigued by developing performant and insightful solutions to challenging modelling problems?
• Keen to use logical reasoning and data to formulate and test hypotheses about the behaviour of financial markets?

What can you expect?

• An open-ended, difficult to solve problem. Specifically, building an algorithmic trading strategy.
• An accompanying mini-lecture where we candidly explain what quantitative trading really involves.
• Advice and support from instructors with industry experience of developing trading strategies.
• Prizes for the best performing strategies plus other goodies.

Places are allocated on a suitability basis and are limited to 20 students. Please note this workshop is only for students enrolled at the University of Oxford.

Application deadline:

• Sunday, 2nd November at 5pm  

Event date: 

• Monday, 10th November, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Location:

• L6, Oxford University Mathematical Institute, OX2 6GG

Join us for GSA’s inaugural Women in Trading & Tech Insight Programme 2026

Over March/April 2026, we will welcome a select group of women to our London office for a 2 day immersive introduction to quantitative research, technology and life at GSA.

Why attend?

• See how mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists turn data into trading strategies
• Tackle immersive challenges, gaining hands on exposure to our work
• Receive one on one mentorship from our trading and technology teams
• Get a taste of our culture and network with diverse individuals
• Gain career advice from the recruitment team
• Accommodation and travel expenses covered by GSA*

Who can apply?

• First year undergraduate or postgraduate women in STEM disciplines from any university globally (e.g: Maths, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics)
• Strong problem solving skills and curiosity to learn
• Interest in working within a quantitative environment

Please apply here and we will get in touch with more details soon. Please note, applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

*Visa expenses will be covered on a case by case basis