Equities Operations Analyst

Optiver; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 133,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive compensation package

401(k) match up to 50%

Comprehensive health coverage

25 paid vacation days

Office perks including meals and events

Job summary

Optiver is seeking an Operations Analyst to join our trading operations team in New York. This role involves managing the full trade lifecycle for ETF and cash equities, as well as process improvement and automation efforts.

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience in trade support within financial markets, strong communication skills, and a detail-oriented mindset. Our competitive compensation package includes a base salary range of $110,000—$133,500 USD, health coverage, and extensive office perks.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in trade support or operations within financial markets.
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle: booking, reconciliation, confirmation, and settlement.
• Excellent communication skills for daily interactions.

Responsibilities

• Own the full trade lifecycle for ETF/cash equities and options.
• Identify manual workflows and design improvements.
• Coordinate onboarding of new counterparties.

Skills

Trade support experience

Operations within financial markets

Strong communication skills

Detail-oriented critical thinking

Self-motivated problem-solving

Large dataset analysis

Excel proficiency

Job description

The OES Operations team is critical to our trading business. We manage the processes that connect us to exchanges, counterparties, and internal teams — ensuring assets, information, and trades flow accurately and efficiently. As our desk expands into ETF and cash equities trading, we need a sharp, driven operations analyst to own critical workflows end-to-end while helping build the next generation of our operational infrastructure.

This role offers direct exposure to the fast-paced environment of front office trading. You will work alongside traders daily, supporting trading functions and ensuring seamless communication between internal teams, external stakeholders, and clearing firms.

What you’ll do:

Trading Operations

• Own the full trade lifecycle for ETF/cash equities and options: trade capture, confirmation, clearing, and settlement
• Compile and reconcile data from electronic and voice trades
• Resolve erroneous, broken, or unmatched trades with urgency
• Monitor and control post‑trade processes, proactively identifying and mitigating operational risk
• Act as liaison between desk traders, external dealers, brokers, and clearing firm

Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify manual workflows and design improvements to reduce operational risk and increase scalability
• Build tools, reports, and dashboards to enhance daily trading operations
• Collaborate with developers and traders to streamline systems and data flows
• Continuously optimize processes — challenge existing workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and risk controls

Counterparty & ETF Onboarding

• Coordinate end-to-end onboarding of new counterparties — gathering KYC/AML documentation, liaising with Legal and Compliance, and tracking progress through to completion

What you’ll get:

• The opportunity to work alongside best‑in‑class professionals from over 40 different countries
• Highly competitive compensation package including performance‑based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

• 2+ years of experience in trade support or operations within financial markets (ETF and cash equities operations experience preferred), ideally on a trading desk or bank
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle: booking, reconciliation, confirmation, and settlement
• Excellent communication skills — you'll be the point of contact for traders, counterparties, and exchanges daily
• Detail‑oriented critical thinker who thrives under pressure and can manage competing priorities
• Self‑motivated and takes ownership — you see a problem, you fix it
• Enjoys working with large datasets to find patterns and identify irregularities
• Strong proficiency in Excel

Who we are:

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

Base Salary Range: $110,000—$133,500 USD