Middle Office Engineer recruitment
Additional responsibilities:
• Reconcile all trade settlement/break issues and end-of-day processing including daily trading profit and loss for the firm (domestic and international).
• Enhance system controls and automated system checks to validate our market positions.
• Interact with internal departments including Trading, IT, Back Office, and Accounting to resolve system discrepancies, perform root cause analysis, and identify time-critical issues.
• Work with the Chief Compliance Office and Director of Trading to identify operational and system improvements in order to reduce operational risk.
• Heavy use of Shell scripting is involved for the day-to-day tasks.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• 2 years of middle office/back office/operations experience with high priority given to those with experience in covering trade settlements, fail control, root cause analysis, and reconciliation of trade discrepancies.
• Recent programming/scripting expertise is required, Unix KSH Scripting and SQL preferred.
• Nimbleness to adapt to changing priorities in a time sensitive role.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
You must possess high accountability, a strong sense of urgency, and the ability to communicate cross-departmentally and at all management levels due to the criticality of this role.
Quantlab offers a top-notch compensation package including an aggressive pay-for-performance bonus program, generous medical and paid time off benefits, and relocation subsidies that may be cashed-out. In addition, we have an informal environment, comprehensive team-based projects and training, great work-life balance and terrific perks for our employees.