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About Magnetar
Magnetar is a leading global alternative asset manager with $17B+ AUM as of June 30, 2026. We are based in Evanston, IL—just north of Chicago and easily accessible by the “L”—with additional offices in New York, London, Menlo Park, CA, and Austin, TX.
Grounded in two decades of investing experience, we aim to generate consistent performance for our investors by identifying differentiated investment opportunities and building scalable businesses across our core strategies: Alternative Credit and Fixed Income, Quantitative Investing, and Venture.
Magnetar employees are among the best in the business at what they do. Our employees thrive on intellectual curiosity, collaboration and identifying creative solutions to complex problems. Our team is made up of highly skilled, passionate professionals who care deeply about delivering results for our investors, our firm and one another. We are proud to foster an inclusive, welcoming environment that empowers each employee to succeed.
At Magnetar, our commitment to our employees matches our dedication to our work. We offer top-tier benefits including comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance, a 401k match, competitive paid time off, wellness programs, daily lunches, and professional development through Magnetar University. We are also passionate about giving back, supporting financial education and community engagement through our Foundation and various volunteer initiatives.
We hope you’ll consider joining us as you explore a career at Magnetar!
Position Overview
The Portfolio Finance & Reporting team is responsible for ensuring the appropriate funding of numerous investment vehicles operated by the firm, maintaining third-party financing relationships, and reporting assorted metrics to internal and external audiences. The team monitors liquidity of each of the firm's investment vehicles, tracks their various financing facilities, and reports both current and projected liquidity to senior management and various trading desks. Other responsibilities include ad hoc reporting requests from senior management, trading desks, business development and investor relations.
The team interacts with fund accounting, portfolio managers, operations, legal and prime brokerage personnel daily and is an integral part of the firm's internal control and management reporting framework.
The role offers exposure to a wide variety of work: additional key responsibilities for portfolio finance staff include negotiating counterparty documents and monitoring margin, financing, and stock loan terms. As such, the individual will be expected to acquire in-depth knowledge of prime broker margin and financing rules across a range of methodologies. The team is also responsible for cultivating relationships with external parties to help secure financing at either the investment vehicle or asset level. While monitoring liquidity and margin, portfolio finance staff also maintain several systems that generate critical information used across the firm.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain forward-looking models that project fund-level cash flows and liquidity needs — including the new deal pipeline, capital calls and distributions, asset lifecycle events, operating expenses and financing costs — to inform deployment strategy
- Work with portfolio managers to track the pipeline of potential financing opportunities in the portfolio
- Manage FX hedging processes across the firm’s investment portfolio
- Participate in calls with external financing providers and assist with preparation for counterparty credit calls
- Monitor margin calls, collateral postings and available liquidity across counterparties
- Maintain internal margin calculations and coordinate the setup of new accounts and related margin terms, as well as changes to existing accounts
- Monitor stock loan reporting tools and assist trading desks with stock loan needs
- Prepare recurring internal reporting and support external reporting requirements
- Perform ad hoc analysis and special project work supporting information requests, system enhancements and new product launches
Qualifications
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Finance or Accounting with strong academic performance
- 1-5 years of experience in the financial services or banking industries with relevant experience in margin, funding, or treasury preferred
- Proficient in Microsoft office applications with emphasis on Excel
- Optimistic attitude and a willingness to contribute however and wherever possible or required. Seeks out an environment with the potential to rapidly assume additional challenges and responsibilities.
- Energetic, flexible, attention to detail and demonstrated capability to be proactive.
- Deadline-driven individual with proven ability to work with focus under time or other constraints.
- Ability to effectively prioritize projects for maximum effectiveness and efficiency of group needs
The annual base salary range for this position is $70,000 to $130,000 USD. The actual base salary will depend upon the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, skills, business needs and market. This role may be eligible for a discretionary bonus and if awarded is based on a variety of factors including firm and individual performance.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
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Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
AI Disclaimer
Magnetar uses AI tools such as Claude, an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, to support certain recruiting and talent acquisition activities, such as tracking candidates’ status in the recruiting process, interviewer preparation, and interviewer feedback consolidation. These tools may facilitate recruiting and hiring-related processes. Information processed may include application materials, resumes, interview notes, interviewer feedback, candidate status information, and related communications. Magnetar uses an enterprise version of Claude that operates in a closed-loop environment and does not permit information processed by the system to be publicly available.
The AI tool currently used for these purposes is Claude, an AI assistant developed by Anthropic. Magnetar uses AI for the following types of positions: exempt positions.
Hiring decisions are made by authorized Magnetar personnel. No AI tool makes or determines any employment decision. AI-generated output is used only as a support tool and is subject to human review. Magnetar does not rely solely on AI-generated output, including any score, tag, classification, ranking, recommendation, or similar output, with no other factors considered. Magnetar also does not use any such output as one of a set of criteria where the AI-generated output is weighted more than any other criterion, or to overrule conclusions derived from other factors, including human decision-making.
Magnetar will not use artificial intelligence with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training or apprenticeship, discharge, discipline, tenure, or the terms, privileges, or conditions of employment in a manner that has the effect of subjecting employees or applicants to discrimination on the basis of protected classes under the Illinois Human Rights Act or any other appliable law, or use zip codes as a proxy for protected characteristics.
Fraudulent Job Alert
Magnetar is aware of fraudulent job post schemes, such as phishing emails, that invite candidates to apply and interview for positions at Magnetar. We take this matter very seriously. Please be aware that Magnetar does not send unprompted emails soliciting applications or offering interviews. If you have applied for a position at Magnetar through our Careers Page, any follow up communication will come from “@magnetar.com”. Any emails from accounts that do not end in “@magnetar.com” are fraudulent. Suspicious messages can be reported to Magnetar at [email protected].
