This role is either a Wednesday-Sunday, or a Saturday-Wednesday role, you will need to work the weekends.
The Clearing Post-Trade Services and Risk team operates within CME Group’s Clearing House and oversees daily trade processing for futures/options and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, ensuring the timely clearing of customer transactions and performing key risk management functions. The Clearing House guarantees its member firms meet their financial obligations for all open positions, as well as offering various clearing services to drive efficiencies for CME Group’s customers.
The Post-Trade Services and Risk Analyst will be working on two new initiatives with CME Group. The analyst will be monitoring risk and systems for our new Event Contracts suite over the weekend. Responsibilities will include strategic planning and design of clearing systems, operational and risk management, development of operational risk governance documents, and engaging internal stakeholders and external market participants.
What you'll get:
- A supportive environment that promotes career progression, learning and development and inclusion.
- Exposure to CME's vast number of products and asset classes.
- The opportunity to work with several functional groups across departments.
- Competitive salary & comprehensive benefits package.
What you'll do:
- Provide support to clearing member firms, customers and business partners on CME Group’s product offering and clearing systems.
- Mitigate customer impactful events through escalation to management and troubleshoot with technology teams to deliver fixes in a timely manner within SLAs.
- Drive improvements in risk management practices and contribute to the Clearing House’s operational risk framework.
- Work globally with teammates on new initiatives and projects.
What you'll need:
- MS/BS in Finance, Economics, or related field.
- 1-2 years prior work experience with listed derivatives, Treasury Securities, Repo markets, or OTC products at a clearing house, FCM, or trading firm.
- Securities clearing and Operational Risk management experience preferred.
- Strong experience in Excel (or Google Sheets) including pivot tables, vlookups, and macros.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field
- 1–2 years of experience with listed derivatives, Treasury securities, repo markets, or OTC products at a clearing house, FCM, or trading firm
- Securities clearing and operational risk management experience
- Strong experience with Excel or Google Sheets, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and macros
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Availability to work a Wednesday–Sunday or Saturday–Wednesday schedule, including weekends
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Retirement Support — U.S. offerings include both a 401(k) and a company-funded cash-balance pension, strengthening long-term financial security. This dual-track structure is highlighted as a notable differentiator among private employers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and holiday schedules are described as generous, with ample time off and carryover commonly highlighted. This breadth of leave meaningfully enhances perceived total rewards.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible, hybrid work model applies to many roles, increasing day-to-day usability of the package. Flexibility is framed as a standard feature rather than an exception.
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What We Do
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
