Trading Operations Specialist

Job Description

DRW, a diversified trading firm, is seeking a Trading Operations Specialist to support its trading desks in London. The successful candidate will work closely with experienced traders, researchers, and software engineers to optimize operational workflow and utilize the appropriate tools and technology.

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 FX Options desk.
• Provide operational support for Direct Trading.

Requirements:

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