Graduate/ Junior Operations Analyst

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with employer match

Health, vision and dental cover

Generous paid time off

Career development and training

Client exposure

Job summary

Ocho People seeks a Graduate/Junior Market Operations Associate in Belfast, offering a hybrid role with a Thu–Sun shift schedule from 7:00–15:30. You will support real-time trading, interact with clients and engineers, and develop skills across trading systems, market surveillance, and data services.

Ideal candidates have 1+ years in trade support or related fields, a strong eye for detail, and comfort with Python/SQL. A competitive base salary plus discretionary annual incentive is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 1+ years’ experience in trade support, middle-office ops or compliance.
• Ability to quickly learn Python/SQL and trading concepts.
• Willingness to work Thu-Sun shift pattern and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Develop expertise across trading systems and market functionality.
• Support market participants and internal stakeholders on access and data services.
• Coordinate communications during critical system issues with engineers.
• Monitor trading environment integrity and maintain procedures.
• Maintain event contracts, specs, trading parameters and settlements.
• Execute and document operational procedures for Market Operations.
• Create automation scripts used by the team.
• Collaborate with Tech Operations, Product, Sales, QA and Compliance.

Skills

Python

SQL

Communication

Attention to detail

Weekend shift availability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Trading systems knowledge

Job description

Graduate / Junior Market Operations Associate

Thursday to Sunday shifts 7- 3:30pm

At a Glance

• Market Operations role at a high-growth prediction markets trading firm, Belfast (hybrid) 3 days in the office
• Core exposure: trading systems, market surveillance, client and partner support, Python/SQL
• Shift-based schedule covering Thursday to Sunday, including weekend working
• Competitive base salary plus discretionary annual incentive bonus
• 1+ years' experience in trade support, middle-office operations or compliance welcomed. Would suit a recently qualified Graduate with a placement year.

About the Company

Our client is a specialist prediction markets trading firm, operating at the frontier of financial markets in partnership with major institutional players. They are building the premier prediction market platform, empowering traders to take positions on real-world events and generating market-driven forecasts for decision makers. The engineering and operations teams are lean, highly skilled, and building infrastructure and processes that operate at genuine exchange scale.

The Role

As Market Operations Associate you will provide real-time support to clients and key internal stakeholders, helping to maintain a fair and orderly market and monitoring the stability of the firm's trading systems. You will work directly with clients, engineers, product managers and executive leaders to resolve mission-critical questions as they arise. This role suits someone adaptive, highly empathetic and motivated to learn, who takes the initiative to understand partners' priorities and guide their adoption of the firm's trading, clearing and data services. You will work in-person hybrid from the Belfast office, on a shift pattern that runs Thursday through Sunday, so weekend working is a core part of this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop expertise across trading systems, market functionality, order types and external interfaces
• Support market participants, including futures commission merchants, clearing banks and other industry partners on market access and trading, clearing or data services
• Synthesise user feedback and coordinate communications when escalating critical system issues to engineering
• Monitor system integrity and maintain control of the trading environment
• Maintain listed event contracts, ensuring accurate product specifications, trading parameters and settlement terms
• Execute and maintain operational procedures across the Market Operations function
• Design, build and maintain automation scripts used by the team
• Collaborate with Technology Operations, Product Management, Sales, Quality Assurance, Compliance and Regulation

What You'll Need

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
• 1+ years' experience in trade support, quantitative trade consulting, middle-office operations, compliance or system engineering within an institutional trading or exchange environment
• Disciplined attention to detail and the initiative to go beyond surface-level answers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly pick up new concepts, for example beginner-level Python or SQL
• Availability and commitment to a shift-based schedule covering Thursday to Sunday, including weekends, plus an on-call environment
• Right to work in the UK on a permanent, indefinite basis (no visa sponsorship available)

Desirable / Nice to Have:

• Professional exposure to, or familiarity with, electronic trading or exchanges
• Python programming experience, for example writing simple scripts to automate manual processes
• Some ability to query large datasets and analyse results

Why Apply?

• Competitive base salary plus participation in a discretionary annual incentive bonus
• Pension plan with employer match, plus health, vision and dental cover
• Generous paid time off
• Front-row seat to real-time trading and market operations at a firm partnering with Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group
• Direct exposure to clients, engineers, product managers and executive leadership from day one
• Genuine career runway, with individualised training and milestone-based project work outside core shift coverage

Inclusive, values-led workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds