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Operations Analyst

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship
Optiver logo

at Optiver

Proprietary Trading

Posted 4 days ago

No clicks

**Operations Analyst - Own Trade Lifecycle, Drive Improvements, $110k-$133.5k** Manage ETF/cash equities and options trade lifecycle. Resolve broken trades, monitor post-trade processes, and mitigate operational risk. Collaborate with traders and external stakeholders. Design process improvements, build tools, and continuously optimize workflows. Onboard new counterparties and ETFs.

Compensation
$110,000 – $133,500 USD

Currency: $ (USD)

City
New York City
Country
United States

Full Job Description

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Operations Analyst

Level

Experienced

Location

New York

Department

Institutional Sales & Trading

Operations Analyst
 
The OES Operations team is critical to our trading business. We manage the processes that connect us to exchanges, counterparties, and internal teams ensuring assets, information, and trades flow accurately and efficiently. As our desk expands into ETF and cash equities trading, we need a sharp, driven operations analyst to own critical workflows end-to-end while helping build the next generation of our operational infrastructure.                                                                                                                           
 
This role offers direct exposure to the fast-paced environment of front office trading. You will work alongside traders daily, supporting trading functions and ensuring seamless communication between internal teams, external stakeholders, and clearing firms.
 
What youll do:
 
Trading Operations
  • Own the full trade lifecycle for ETF/cash equities and options: trade capture, confirmation, clearing, and settlement
  • Compile and reconcile data from electronic and voice trades
  • Resolve erroneous, broken, or unmatched trades with urgency
  • Monitor and control post-trade processes, proactively identifying and mitigating operational risk
  • Act as liaison between desk traders, external dealers, brokers, and clearing firm.

Process Improvement & Automation

  • Identify manual workflows and design improvements to reduce operational risk and increase scalability
  • Build tools, reports, and dashboards to enhance daily trading operations
  • Collaborate with developers and traders to streamline systems and data flows
  • Continuously optimize processes challenge existing workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and risk controls

Counterparty & ETF Onboarding

  • Coordinate end-to-end onboarding of new counterparties gathering KYC/AML documentation, liaising with Legal and Compliance, and tracking progress through to completion

What youll get:

  • The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
  • 401(k) match up to 50%
  • Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
  • 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
  • Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

  • 2+ years of experience in trade support or operations within financial markets (ETF and cash equities operations experience preferred), ideally on a trading desk or bank
  • Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle: booking, reconciliation, confirmation, and settlement
  • Excellent communication skills you'll be the point of contact for traders, counterparties, and exchanges daily
  • Detail-oriented critical thinker who thrives under pressure and can manage competing priorities Self-motivated and takes ownership you see a problem, you fix it
  • Enjoys working with large datasets to find patterns and identify irregularities
  • Strong proficiency in Excel

Who we are:

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe. Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

 

 

Below is the expected base salary for this position. This is a good-faith estimate of the base pay scale for this position and offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus (if determined by Optiver) and Optivers benefits package with the benefits listed above.

Base Salary Range
$110,000$133,500 USD

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Operations Analyst

Compensation

$110,000 – $133,500 USD

City: New York City

Country: United States

Optiver logo
Proprietary Trading

4 days ago

No clicks

at Optiver

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

**Operations Analyst - Own Trade Lifecycle, Drive Improvements, $110k-$133.5k** Manage ETF/cash equities and options trade lifecycle. Resolve broken trades, monitor post-trade processes, and mitigate operational risk. Collaborate with traders and external stakeholders. Design process improvements, build tools, and continuously optimize workflows. Onboard new counterparties and ETFs.

Full Job Description

Back to Institutional Sales & Trading jobs in New York

Operations Analyst

Level

Experienced

Location

New York

Department

Institutional Sales & Trading

Operations Analyst
 
The OES Operations team is critical to our trading business. We manage the processes that connect us to exchanges, counterparties, and internal teams ensuring assets, information, and trades flow accurately and efficiently. As our desk expands into ETF and cash equities trading, we need a sharp, driven operations analyst to own critical workflows end-to-end while helping build the next generation of our operational infrastructure.                                                                                                                           
 
This role offers direct exposure to the fast-paced environment of front office trading. You will work alongside traders daily, supporting trading functions and ensuring seamless communication between internal teams, external stakeholders, and clearing firms.
 
What youll do:
 
Trading Operations
  • Own the full trade lifecycle for ETF/cash equities and options: trade capture, confirmation, clearing, and settlement
  • Compile and reconcile data from electronic and voice trades
  • Resolve erroneous, broken, or unmatched trades with urgency
  • Monitor and control post-trade processes, proactively identifying and mitigating operational risk
  • Act as liaison between desk traders, external dealers, brokers, and clearing firm.

Process Improvement & Automation

  • Identify manual workflows and design improvements to reduce operational risk and increase scalability
  • Build tools, reports, and dashboards to enhance daily trading operations
  • Collaborate with developers and traders to streamline systems and data flows
  • Continuously optimize processes challenge existing workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and risk controls

Counterparty & ETF Onboarding

  • Coordinate end-to-end onboarding of new counterparties gathering KYC/AML documentation, liaising with Legal and Compliance, and tracking progress through to completion

What youll get:

  • The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
  • 401(k) match up to 50%
  • Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
  • 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
  • Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

  • 2+ years of experience in trade support or operations within financial markets (ETF and cash equities operations experience preferred), ideally on a trading desk or bank
  • Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle: booking, reconciliation, confirmation, and settlement
  • Excellent communication skills you'll be the point of contact for traders, counterparties, and exchanges daily
  • Detail-oriented critical thinker who thrives under pressure and can manage competing priorities Self-motivated and takes ownership you see a problem, you fix it
  • Enjoys working with large datasets to find patterns and identify irregularities
  • Strong proficiency in Excel

Who we are:

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe. Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

 

 

Below is the expected base salary for this position. This is a good-faith estimate of the base pay scale for this position and offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus (if determined by Optiver) and Optivers benefits package with the benefits listed above.

Base Salary Range
$110,000$133,500 USD

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