Flow Traders is looking for a new Senior Operations Specialist to join our Operations department. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business.
You will join the Flow Traders EMEA Operations team based in our Amsterdam office. We have an expanding product universe, covering all major asset classes. Our team covers a multitude of areas and follows the full trade lifecycle. As such, the opportunities to learn and grow are limitless within the organization.
For this role, we are looking for candidates with 5+ years of relevant experience in Operations, Middle Office, or a related field, combined with good analytical and programing skills, as well as a a strong desire to continue learning and developing within this space. If you are interested in the role and believe your experience aligns, we encourage you to apply and include a short explanation of your motivation to join Flow Traders.
What you'll do
- Reconcile trades and positions intraday and next day, across multiple asset classes
- Calculate daily P&L and cash - own the numbers, find the breaks, explain them
- Know the full trade lifecycle cold: execution, settlement, fees, interest bookings
- Dig into large datasets to find what's wrong and fix how the process works
- Work directly with Prime Brokers, trading desks, risk, compliance, and finance
- Automate the manual stuff - write the script, don't just flag the problem
What you need
- 5+ years in trading operations, middle office, or financial services
- A degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or something similarly quantitative
- Python and SQL are hard requirements - you write code, not just read it
- Sharp attention to detail and a genuine appetite for getting into the weeds
- Prior exposure to trading, front office, or technology teams is a plus
- Comfortable handling large, messy datasets and knowing when the numbers don't add up
- You reach for a script before you reach for a spreadsheet
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
Skills Required
- 5+ years commercial work experience
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Ability to process and critically analyze data
- Knowledge of Python, SQL and Excel
- Good numerical skills
What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
