Financial Operations Associate, Derivatives

Jump Trading, LLC.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global trading firm in Singapore is seeking a Financial Operations Associate with experience in equity derivatives to enhance its PnL and reconciliation functions. The role involves collaboration across multiple departments, process improvement, and operational issue resolution. Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years' experience in trade operations, excellent communication skills in English, and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field. Mandarin proficiency is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in trade operations or reconciliation role.
• Ability to improve processes through technology.
• Strong critical thinking and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with swap and financing reconciliations.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement.

Skills

Equity derivatives operations

Project management

Business analysis

Communication skills in English

Knowledge of Total Return Swaps

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, Accounting, Finance or related fields

Job description

Financial Operations Associate, Derivatives

Hong Kong or Singapore

Job Type

Full-Time

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

This is an exciting role for an individual with equity/index derivatives experience to join our Financial Operations team based in Hong Kong or Singapore. You will be joining a group aimed at building out a PnL and reconciliation function at Jump. This individual will be playing a major role in the further development of Jump’s systems and processes, while collaborating across Treasury, Clearing, Finance, Tax, and the trading community. In addition, this role will be expected to identify tangible opportunities to improve our business operations. You will report to the Head of Financial Operations.

What You’ll Do:

• Assist with the buildout and eventual oversight of the firm’s swap and financing reconciliations, including swap resets, pay-to-holds, PB financing, repo financing, etc.
• Investigate and resolve breaks stemming from the firm’s daily and monthly reconciliations.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and work with technology to implement those.
• Assist with the continued development of Jump’s back‑office infrastructure and finding value‑add opportunities to further leverage this infrastructure.
• Collaborate across multiple stakeholders, including other parts of the back office and technology.
• Assist in creating written processes and procedures.
• Act as an escalation point for any finance operational issues.
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• A background in equity and/or equity‑linked derivative operations and portfolio financing.
• Deep asset class knowledge, including life cycle events, for Total Return Swaps.
• Strong project management and business analysis experience within trade operations.
• Demonstrated examples working with technology to improve processes.
• Comfort reviewing large sets of data with limited direction.
• Accomplished communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate (written and verbal) in English to both internal and external contacts on a global basis; proficiency in Mandarin is preferred as a plus skill, enabling effective communication with Mandarin‑speaking counter parties.
• At least 5+ year’s work experience preferred in a trade operations or reconciliation role.
• Excellent organizational and critical thinking skills.
• Experience managing a small team and/or function is a plus.
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, Finance or related fields.

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