Trading Operations Analyst

Posted 13 Days Ago
Austin, TX
85K-125K Annually
Junior
Information Technology • Financial Services
The Role
The Trading Operations Analyst will manage clearance, settlement, and reconciliation of trades at Virtu. Responsibilities include collaborating with traders and stakeholders to ensure trade accuracy and timely settlement, while also enhancing operational workflows through automation and data analysis.
Summary Generated by Built In

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to offer liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide.

THE ROLE

Our Trading Operations team is a multi-faceted group whose roles and responsibilities directly support the foundation of trading at Virtu. This team provides the operational efficiency that is central to our success in trading; they manage and optimize the logistics, mechanics and back office workflows that keep Virtu best-in-class.  

We are looking to hire an Analyst who will be responsible for managing the clearance, settlement, and reconciliation of all trades and positions for the firm. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with traders, finance, compliance, brokers, custodians, and firm customers to ensure timely settlement of trades, accuracy of books and records, and avoidance of unanticipated risk to both the firm and its customers. 

We look for candidates with a strong technical foundation, as you will also have the opportunity to work closely with software engineers to further automate and enhance the robustness of the firm’s operational workflows. Operations Analysts not only become experts in the logistics and mechanics of trade clearance and settlement, but they also play a crucial role in the ability of the firm to conduct trading efficiently and safely, perform challenging and stimulating data analysis, and participate in the architecture of new systems and controls.

No finance experience is necessary. We look for motivated, detail-oriented candidates with a solid technical foundation and who have a drive toward process improvement. 

THE CANDIDATE

  • 1-3 years of professional working experience. (graduates will be considered)
  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field preferred (Business, Finance, Economics, and Engineering academic backgrounds preferred)
  • Strong experience with SQL and Python
  • Outstanding quantitative problem‐solving skills
  • The ability to communicate information precisely and with agility to parties both internal and external
  • A team player with a good attitude and flexibility in their time commitment to the job
  • Highly motivated and tenacious individual, with a proven ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team environment

THE PROCESS

After passing an application screening, candidates will be sent an online programming test via email from a service called HackerRank. This is to gain an understanding of the candidates' coding ability.

 

Virtu Financial is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming you for who you are and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.


Top Skills

Python
SQL
The Company
HQ: New York, NY
822 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients.

We combine our market structure expertise and execution technology to provide deep liquidity and competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues in 36 countries and unrivaled execution technology to our clients, while creating more efficient and stable markets worldwide.

We strongly believe that transparency enables market participants to make better, more informed decisions while making markets more efficient. We strictly adhere to our core set of client values with each and every trade: Transparency, Reliability & Virtue.

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