What does a fund finance and accounting do at a quant firm?
Trading firms run finance functions that look nothing like a corporate equivalent: daily profit attribution, financing and collateral costs, multi-entity structures, partner economics and, at prop firms, no external investors to report to but exacting internal scrutiny instead. Qualified accountants who understand trading products and financing move quickly, and treasury specialists who can reduce financing cost are compensated closer to the desks than to the back office.