About the Role
We are seeking a Financial Analyst with a strong foundation in traditional finance and quantitative analysis to join our digital assets market neutral hedge fund. This role sits at the intersection of conventional financial markets and decentralized finance, focusing specifically on tokenized real world assets (RWAs) and their implementation on blockchain infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
You will analyze and evaluate tokenized real world asset protocols, conducting due diligence on projects bridging traditional assets—such as treasury securities, corporate bonds, commodities, equities, funds and credit products—to blockchain platforms. Your work will involve assessing underlying asset quality and analyzing the economic models of DeFi protocols facilitating RWA integration.
You will be directly responsible for growing the RWA part of the book, which means you will spend most of your time researching structural features of tokenization platforms—such as custody arrangements, legal frameworks, redemption mechanisms, and counterparty risk.
You will collaborate with the broader team of the fund, including the quantitative and developer or back-office teams, but most of your time will be spent within the small DeFi-focused team where we evaluate protocol economics, token incentive structures, and smart contract risks, ensuring investment decisions incorporate both financial fundamentals and blockchain-specific considerations.
Required Qualifications
Experience: 1-2 years minimum in financial analysis, investment banking, asset management, quantitative research, or related roles within traditional finance. Experience with fixed income, structured products, credit analysis, derivatives, or quantitative trading strategies is particularly valuable.
Financial and quantitative acumen: Strong understanding of financial statements, valuation methodologies, cash flow analysis, and risk metrics. Solid grasp of econometrics, statistical modeling, and quantitative analysis techniques. Familiarity with credit analysis, duration, convexity, yield curve dynamics, and long/short equity or credit strategies is advantageous.
Technical skills: Strong proficiency in financial modeling, including building models for complex financial structures. Experience running backtests on trading strategies and conducting scenario analysis is a plus.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with the ability to distill complex financial, quantitative, and technical concepts into clear investment recommendations.
Preferred Qualifications
Understanding of or demonstrated interest in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency markets, and DeFi protocols. Familiarity with concepts such as smart contracts, liquidity pools, yield farming, recursive borrowing or tokenization standards is beneficial but not required—we value intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn quickly.
Advanced proficiency with blockchain data analytics tools and on-chain data analysis.
What We Offer
The opportunity to work at the forefront of financial innovation, applying traditional finance and quantitative expertise to emerging markets. You will gain deep exposure to DeFi protocols while leveraging your conventional finance background, positioning yourself as a specialist in the rapidly growing tokenized assets sector. You will work in a global team of experts with various backgrounds both directly within the market neutral fund, as well as the broader RockawayX divisions.