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Programme
Graduate
Location
Stamford, CT
About the role
The Macro and Alternatives Trade Support Analyst supports daily trade processing, reconciliations, reporting, and issue resolution across macro and derivatives products. The role partners with portfolio managers, traders, counterparties, prime brokers, and futures commission merchants while improving operational controls, workflows, automation, and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Confirm daily trade activity and resolve exceptions across macro and derivatives products.
- Reconcile positions with prime brokers, futures commission merchants, and trading counterparties.
- Manage trade support workflows covering bonds, repos, swaps, loans, credit, foreign exchange, futures, options, and OTC derivatives.
- Monitor foreign currency exposure and support foreign exchange transaction execution.
- Respond to internal and external questions with accurate data and analysis.
- Support portfolio manager team onboarding, including account setup, platform training, and third-party connectivity.
Role Context
- Work within Point72’s Operations team supporting trade processing, reconciliation, financing, and reporting firmwide.
- Collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, counterparties, prime brokers, and futures commission merchants.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes through automation, stronger controls, and greater efficiency.
Requirements
- Zero to two years of middle office operations experience at a hedge fund, asset manager, bank, or similar institution.
- Undergraduate degree in accounting, business, economics, mathematics, or a related field.
- Knowledge of fixed income and derivatives, including rates, credit, futures, foreign exchange, and OTC derivatives.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- High attention to detail, strong work ethic, self-motivation, confidence, and commitment to ethical standards.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and adapt to changing environments.
Technical Skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Basic understanding of VBA.