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Trading Operations Specialist

2 months ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Quanta Search Full time
Job Title: Trading Operations Specialist

Quanta Search is seeking a skilled Trading Operations Specialist to support our Agricultural trading desks globally. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for trade capture, confirmation, reconciliation, and P&L calculation, requiring strong communication skills to liaise with internal teams and senior management.

Responsibilities:
  • Assume ownership and expertise of processes and workflows to support standard operational and trader assistant functions of the firm's Agricultural trading desks.
  • Handle trade and position reconciliation with the firm's clearing firms, prime brokers, and bilateral counterparties.
  • Perform daily P&L calculation and substantiation: ensure that the preferred method of aggregating and reporting P&L at each desk aligns and integrates with the firm's standards.
  • Achieve proficiency in the firm's proprietary and third-party trade capture, inventory management, and P&L reporting systems necessary to support the desks' activity.
  • Act as the primary contact for current workflows, addressing issues that may arise between internal groups and multiple external exchanges, clearers, and counterparties.
  • Provide crucial support and advice on needed enhancements to technology, workflows, and processes as a system super-user.
  • Develop a comprehensive understanding of traders' individual risk management tools and offer support for their requirements.
  • Upgrade and support traders' tools to align with standard firm technologies and tools.
  • Collaborate with technical personnel to ensure proper support for ongoing operations and procure enhancements for deficient or new workflows, with a focus on process efficiency, risk reduction, and alignment with firm standards.
  • Partner closely with the Business Liaison team to ensure new desks, traders, and products are onboarded correctly.
Requirements:
  • A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or another quantitative field, or material equivalent experience.
  • Proven ability to independently and rapidly solve problems.
  • Ability to perform tasks consistently and reliably.
  • Competency in handling sensitive financial data.
  • Strong MS Excel skills.
Preferred Experience:
  • 2+ years of experience in finance or trading.
  • Previous interaction with front office and senior management personnel in a dynamic trading environment.
  • Ability to work with databases and utilize data from APIs.
  • Experience with programming languages such as Python, SQL, VBA.