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Trading Operations Specialist
Company | DRW |
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Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Salary | $90000 – $130000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Strong interest or working knowledge and experience in crypto
- Previous experience with Version Control, Git, Python, Cron, Linux
- 2-3 years of experience in the front office, middle office, back office, or risk management roles working with exchange-traded and over-the-counter products and derivatives
- Experience working with derivatives is preferred
- Substantial prior interaction with the front office and senior management in an active trading environment
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, computer science, math, or another quantitative field or material equivalent exposure
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Demonstrated ability to analyze problems and synthesize and implement solutions
Responsibilities
- Provide operational support for several of the firm’s crypto trading desks
- Trade capture for all products related to the desks’ activity: futures/futures options
- Trade and position reconciliation with the firm’s clearing houses and brokers
- Daily P&L calculation and substantiation
- Working knowledge and experience in derivatives
- Gain mastery of the firm’s proprietary trade capture, inventory management, treasury management, and risk management systems necessary to support the desks’ activity
- Act as process owner for current functionality and provide critical support and advice regarding needed enhancements to technology, workflows, and processes
- Gain a strong understanding of traders’ risk management tools and provide support for related traders’ needs
- Upgrade and support traders’ tools to effectively utilize technologies and tools that are firm standard
- Interface with technology to improve tools where they fall short of meeting the desks’ needs
- Adopt, integrate, and promote new technology as it becomes available
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with derivatives is preferred