Equity Trade Support Analyst
Our client is a leading quantitative trading and market-making firm seeking an Operations Analyst to support its growing ETF, cash equities, and options trading business. This individual will play a critical role in managing post-trade processes, partnering closely with traders, brokers, clearing firms, and internal stakeholders to ensure the seamless flow of transactions across global markets.
This role offers direct exposure to a fast-paced front-office trading environment and is ideal for someone looking to take ownership of key operational workflows while helping to build scalable infrastructure supporting a high-volume trading business.
What You'll Do
As a Trade Support Analyst, your responsibilities will include:
• Own the full trade lifecycle for ETF, cash equities, and options products, including trade capture, confirmation, clearing, and settlement.
• Compile and reconcile data from electronic and voice-executed trades.
• Investigate and resolve erroneous, unmatched, or failed trades.
• Monitor and control post-trade processes while proactively identifying and mitigating operational risk.
• Serve as a liaison between traders, brokers, dealers, counterparties, exchanges, and clearing firms.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational workflows and reduce manual processes.
• Build reports, tools, and dashboards to support trading operations.
• Partner with technology and trading teams to enhance systems and data flows.
• Continuously evaluate processes and implement improvements focused on efficiency, scalability, and risk management.
• Coordinate counterparty onboarding, including KYC/AML documentation, compliance reviews, and stakeholder communication.
Qualifications
• 2+ years of experience in Trade Support, Operations, Middle Office, or Market Operations within financial markets.
• Experience supporting equities, ETFs, options, or other listed products preferred.
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle, including trade booking, reconciliation, confirmation, clearing, and settlement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Highly detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities and the ability to perform under pressure.
• Self-starter mentality with a willingness to take ownership and drive process improvements.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and identifying discrepancies.
• Experience leveraging Python, automation tools, AI tools, or workflow optimization technologies is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
• Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage.
• Generous retirement savings plan with employer contribution.
• Paid vacation and market holidays.
• Collaborative, high-performance environment with significant opportunities for professional development.
• Modern office environment with meals, snacks, social events, and wellness initiatives.
