HRB
As a Trading Operations Specialist in Chicago, your key role will be supporting Agricultural trading desks globally. Your tasks will include trade capture, confirmation, reconciliation, and P&L calculation, calling for strong communication skills as you'll liaise with various internal teams and senior management. You'll need to handle the stress of a fast-paced environment while maintaining professionalism.
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
Required Experience:
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
A rewarding compensation package is offered to the right candidate.
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