Project Manager

About BestEx Research

BestEx Research is a financial technology and research firm specializing in building sophisticated execution algorithms and transaction cost modeling tools servicing multiple asset classes. The firm provides its services to performance-demanding hedge funds, CTAs, asset managers, and banks through a traditional electronic broker and in a broker-neutral Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

BestEx Research’s mission is to become the leader in automation and measurement of execution across asset classes globally and significantly reduce transaction costs for our clients.

Its cloud-based platform, Algo Management System (AMS), is the first end-to-end algorithmic trading solution for equities, futures, and foreign exchange that delivers an entire ecosystem around execution algorithms, including transaction cost analysis (TCA), an algo customization tool called Strategy Studio, a trading dashboard, and pre-trade analytics in a single platform. The platform is currently live for US equity and global futures trading.

BestEx Research is disrupting a $100 billion industry by challenging the status quo of stale, black-box solutions from banks and offering next-generation execution algorithms that combine performance improvement with transparency and customization. BestEx Research uses leading-edge technology to support its low-latency, highly scalable research and trading systems with its back end in C++, research libraries in C++/Python and R, and web-based technologies for delivering its front-end platforms.

Visit bestexresearch.com for more information about our mission, products, research, and services.

Why work at BestEx Research?

If you want to help investors reduce their trading costs in an incredibly complex market structure and help create and shape an industry-defining product, then this is an excellent opportunity to join an incredibly talented team of 20+. BestEx Research has almost zero turnover, top notch clients, zero bureaucracy, and a flat organizational structure. It is a true meritocracy, set in a collaborative environment, where every employee is working on extraordinarily interesting projects. Our pay scale and benefits are comparable to top-tier firms in our industry, either in the form of cash compensation or a hybrid cash and equity compensation plan. Employees at BestEx Research have exposure to much more variety in the projects they complete and opportunities for growth than in similar roles at other firms.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects concurrently, including creating accurate plans, forecasts, organizing timelines and deliverables in a clear, concise project plan, managing status reports, and ensuring milestones are tracked and escalated
• Create and deliver accurate project reports and presentations to executive leadership
• Collect all necessary project requirements and documentation, including maintaining project budgets and timelines and creating project reporting metrics
• Manage enterprise-wide project pipeline from planning to completion using best practices in project management
• Clearly outline responsibilities and expectations and accurately discern/challenge realities of project delays
• Actively participate in strategic planning and offer guidance on feasibility of initiatives to executive leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• 5+ years of direct experience in project management running highly complex, enterprise-wide projects across multiple teams following best practices
• Experience with Atlassian suite
• Experience working with trading and financial services industry is a big plus
• Familiarity with SDLC
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, documentation skills, time management and task prioritization skills
• A strategic thinker and tenacious problem-solver who is able to translate vision into an actionable plan, align resources, initiate and execute on the plan
• Prefers working in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of urgency