As a Trading Services Associate in Market Operations, you will be responsible for performing control reconciliations to verify trade positions, investigating settlements, and focusing on process re-engineering and automation.
Job responsibilities
- Upload market data to different risk management systems
- Perform reconciliations against market sources
- Perform numerous control reconciliations to verify trading positions are accurate through front office to middle office reconciliations, middle office to back office reconciliations
- Investigate and provide solutions to various queries from settlements and confirmations
- Produce management statistics
- Complete operations projects and ad hoc requests to satisfy new initiatives and operations/technology enhancements (new system implementations)
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong logical/analytical mindset, with the ability to think outside the box and challenge the status quo
- Process flow understanding, including ability to understand current flows and linkage between systems and think how the process can be improved/streamlined
- Availability to work during standard business hours, typically from 8 AM to 5 PM.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance or a related filed preferred.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including experience with complex formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis functions.
- Experience working with trading systems or platforms such as Bloomberg.
- Strong understanding of financial products and markets, including derivatives, fixed income, and foreign exchange.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with tight deadlines and shifting priorities.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks in trade data.
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across different departments and levels of the organization.
- 1 year of experience in finance industry operations roles.