Job Title: Operations Analyst/Associate
Work Model: Hybrid based in Charleston, 3x a week in office (IF NOT LOCAL TO CHARLESTON MUST RELOCATE)
Summary: An elite high frequency proprietary trading firm is seeking both an Analyst and Associate Operations specialist to join their Post Trade team. The role is based in Charleston, SC. You will get to work directly with their new Global Head of Operations.
Qualifications:
- A degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or other related fields. CFA a plus.
- Extensive knowledge base in FAS 1 level financial products
- Fundamental awareness of global markets
- 2-5+ years of experience in capital markets operations
- Extensive communication across trading teams and software development teams
- Interest in post trade infrastructure
- Desire for fast-paced environment and "to wear multiple hats"
- High level MS Excel knowledge is a must: Comfortable with Look-ups, Pivot Tables, and Conditional Statements
- Python, VBA, Tableau, or SQL experience a plus
- Buy Side experience is a plus
- Task Management via tracking software such as JIRA is a plus
Responsibilities:
- Support clearing and settlement processes for millions of daily trades in the following asset classes: Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives, FX, Commodities, and Crypto
- Affirmation of trades, minimizing operational risk and maximizing straight through processing
- Daily reconciliation of internal data to participating brokers via position, trades, cash, NAV, and fees
- Investigation of breaks raised by trading desks, other departments, and counterparties
- Building Business Intelligence reports via Tableau regarding operational activities for senior management
- Maintain and navigate data such as security master within our systems to help minimize and investigate breaks
- Maintain relationships with brokers to fix daily breaks, while continually improving processes long term
- Liaise with external software vendors to troubleshoot current processes and propose improvements
- Own and resolve specific inquiries and ensure timely resolution
- Ability to identify areas of improvement, scope requirements and assist in implementation of automation.