Trading Operations Associate – Quant Trading

VARSITY TECH PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

VARSITY TECH PTE. LTD. is seeking a Trading Operations Associate to monitor our live trading systems during market hours. This role focuses on operations and monitoring, not on generating ideas or strategies. You will identify issues quickly, report anomalies, and maintain clear records.

You'll work with DAS Trader Pro, internal dashboards, Google Sheets, and messaging tools. After training, you will operate independently to ensure smooth intraday activity and timely end-of-day summaries.

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented and reliable monitoring of live trading activity.
• Ability to identify unusual trades or execution issues and report promptly.

Responsibilities

• Monitor live trading activity, positions and P&L
• Ensure trading systems and strategies run normally
• Identify and report unusual trades or errors
• Monitor risk limits and escalate problems
• Record incidents in the operations log
• Perform simple analysis of trading activity
• Communicate issues to engineering/trading teams
• Prepare a short end-of-day operations summary

Skills

Attention to detail

Calm under pressure

Fast response

Responsible and reliable

Multitasking

Anomaly detection

Independent work

Tools

DAS Trader Pro

Internal dashboards

Google Sheets

Trading tools

Slack/Discord

Job description

orking Hours: Monday-Friday, 4 PM-12 PM local time
Holidays: Follow US stock market holidays
Work Arrangement: onsite

About the Role

We operate a fully automated quantitative trading system focused on intraday US equities.

We are looking for a detail-oriented and reliable Trading Operations Associate to monitor our live trading systems during market hours. Your role is to make sure trading operations are running normally, identify issues quickly, and report anything unusual to the team.

This is primarily a monitoring and operations role - you will not be responsible for generating trading ideas or developing strategies.

What You Will Do

• Monitor live trading activity, positions and P&L

• Make sure trading systems and strategies are running normally

• Identify and report unusual trades, system errors or execution issues

• Monitor risk limits and elevate problems quickly

• Record incidents and errors in the operations log

• Perform simple analysis of trading activity and trade logs

• Communicate issues clearly to the engineering/trading team

• Prepare a short end-of-day operations summary
  

Tools

You may work with:

• DAS Trader Pro

• Internal trading dashboards

• Google Sheets

• Trading and signal monitoring tools

• Slack / Discord
  

What We Are Looking For

• Very strong attention to detail

• Calm under pressure

• Able to respond quickly to instructions

• Responsible and reliable

• Comfortable monitoring multiple things at the same time

• Able to identify when something looks unusual

• Comfortable working independently after training

Nice to Have

• Experience trading or monitoring financial markets

• Basic understanding of US stocks and intraday trading

• Experience with automated trading systems

• Comfortable reviewing trade logs and identifying outliers

Compensation

• Competitive base salary based on experience

• Performance bonus

• Opportunity to grow into a senior trading operations role as the firm expands