Trading Operations Specialist

Job Description

DRW is seeking a Trading Operations Specialist to support trading desks in Chicago. The role involves solving challenging problems and collaborating with traders, researchers, and software engineers to optimize operational workflow.

Responsibilities:

• Act as process owner for current functionality and provide critical support and advice regarding needed enhancements to technology, workflows, and processes
• Gain strong understanding of traders’ individual risk management tools and provide support for related traders’ needs
• Upgrade and support traders’ tools to effectively utilize technologies and tools that are firm standard
• Interface with technology to improve tools where they fall short of meeting the desks’ needs
• Adopt, integrate, and promote new technology as it becomes available
• Gain mastery of the firm’s proprietary trade capture, inventory management, treasury management, and risk management systems necessary to support products related to the desks’ activity: futures/futures options
• Trade and position reconciliation with the firm’s clearing houses, counterparties, and brokers
• Daily P&L calculation and substantiation
• Provide operational support for the firm’s Agricultural Options desk

Requirements:

• Proficient in Python, Git, SQL, Linux (plus)
• Experience or working knowledge of options theory and derivatives.
• Strong interest or working knowledge and experience in Agricultural products
• 2-3 years of experience in the front office, middle office, back office, or risk management roles working with exchange-traded and over-the-counter products and derivatives
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, or another quantitative field or material equivalent exposure
• Substantial prior interaction with the front office and senior management in an active trading environment
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Demonstrated ability to analyze problems and synthesize and implement solutions

DRW offers:

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts