CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
As a Manager in FP&A focused on management reporting and performance narrative, this role owns the design, evolution, and executive interpretation of the firm’s management and leadership reporting. The primary objective is to ensure leaders clearly understand what happened, why it happened, and what it means, enabling informed and timely decisions across the firm.
This role is intentionally designed as a senior individual contributor position. Impact is driven through ownership, judgment, and executive partnership rather than people management. The Reporting Manager partners closely with finance leadership, planning and forecasting owners, and senior business leaders to translate financial performance into clear, leadership ready insight, ensuring management reporting remains a strategic asset as the firm scales.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own the design, structure, and ongoing evolution of management and executive reporting, ensuring reports clearly communicate results, drivers, risks, and business implications while answering real leadership questions that support decision making.
- Develop concise, leadership-ready performance narratives and reporting standards for monthly and quarterly reviews, defining what information matters most while translating financial outcomes into actionable insights and strategic guidance.
- Partner with FP&A Systems, Data, and Analytics teams to ensure reporting designs are supported by scalable and durable infrastructure.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, redesign, or retire reports as business needs evolve, improving insight density while reducing noise.
- Support results-focused decision discussions by framing tradeoffs, risks, and options tied to reported results, ensuring leaders clearly understand implications and next steps.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 8+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic finance, or related roles, ideally within financial services, proprietary trading, or technology-driven environments
- Demonstrated success operating as a senior individual contributor with significant ownership and influence
- Proven experience owning management or executive reporting with strong emphasis on narrative, insight, and decision relevance
- Exceptional ability to synthesize complex financial information into clear, concise, leadership-ready messages with strong judgment around materiality, framing, and prioritization
- Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and partner effectively with senior stakeholders
- Experience collaborating with systems, analytics, or automation teams to translate reporting concepts into scalable solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a clear, thoughtful, and executive-appropriate style
Compensation
The salary range for this role is listed below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.
Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.
Our Benefits
We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
(Disclaimer: interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at [email protected]. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Information submitted by job applicants may be subject to review and analysis by automated systems, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), as part of the recruitment process. Such systems are utilized to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our hiring procedures. Applicants are advised that any information provided may be evaluated by AI tools to ensure an equitable and thorough assessment.
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What We Do
Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a highly analytical, team oriented derivatives trading firm that employs a dynamic, disciplined approach to trading across a variety of products and strategies. We take decisive action to position ourselves at the forefront of the financial markets.
We actively trade in a broad spectrum of asset classes that include Equities, Interest Rates, and Commodities. We have grown dramatically since our inception in 1995. Recognized as a leading provider of liquidity and pricing on numerous derivatives exchanges globally, we trade more than 20 hours a day, six days a week.
With offices in Chicago and London, our success and rapid growth are due to our market experience, state of the art technology, risk management capabilities, and financial engineering expertise.
