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Trading Operations Specialist

Trading Operations Specialist

CompanyDRW
LocationChicago, IL, USA
Salary$90000 – $130000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelMid Level

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