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 you’ll 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 you’ll 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 Optiver’s benefits package with the benefits listed above.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience in trade support or operations within financial markets
- Strong proficiency in Excel
- Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle: booking, reconciliation, confirmation, and settlement
- Excellent communication skills
Optiver Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Optiver and has not been reviewed or approved by Optiver.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Pay is considered highly competitive in trading, quantitative, and engineering paths, with performance-linked bonuses that materially elevate total compensation. High performers receive differentiated rewards tied to impact.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid vacation alongside market holidays is a consistent component of the U.S. package. This breadth of leave is a notable element of the offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive health coverage—including medical, dental, and vision—is prominently offered in U.S. roles, with indications that employee premiums are fully covered in some cases. Disability and life coverage further strengthen the core health benefits.
Optiver Insights
What We Do
Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.
Why Work With Us
People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.
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