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Programme
Graduate
Location
Stamford, CT
About the role
The Operations team supports trade processing, reconciliation, financing, and reporting across global markets. This analyst role focuses on futures trade support, exception management, reconciliations, funding trades, delivery processes, stakeholder queries, team onboarding, and operational improvements while partnering with portfolio managers, traders, counterparties, and service providers.
Responsibilities
- Confirm daily futures activity and manage exceptions affecting accurate processing and operational risk controls.
- Reconcile positions with prime brokers, futures commission merchants, and trading counterparties.
- Resolve trade-related issues with portfolio managers, traders, external counterparties, and internal stakeholders.
- Support quarterly bond futures delivery and investigate commission, fee, and tax differences.
- Monitor and help execute funding trades supporting non-deliverable forward trading activity.
- Support onboarding, platform training, connectivity setup, and automation opportunities to improve operational controls.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in accounting, business, economics, mathematics, or a related field.
- Working knowledge of listed futures and options markets, products, and lifecycle processes.
- Hands-on experience with electronic affirmation and confirmation platforms supporting trading activity.
- Knowledge of futures commissions, clearing, execution, exchange rates, and give-up agreement processes.
- Microsoft Office proficiency, particularly Excel, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication, attention to detail, adaptability, independence, and commitment to ethical standards.
Compensation
- Annual base salary ranges from $90,000 to $115,000 USD.
- Discretionary bonus compensation and comprehensive benefits are additional to the stated base salary.
- Benefits include paid healthcare, parental and family leave, wellness programs, tuition assistance, and 401(k) matching.