Trade Validation Analyst

QUANTEAM - North America (RAINBOW PARTNERS Group); New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

QUANTEAM - North America (RAINBOW PARTNERS Group) is seeking a hands-on Trade Validation professional in New York to support equity derivatives and structured products within a global banking environment. This role focuses on end-to-end validation, accurate bookings, and close collaboration with Sales, Structuring, and Operations.

You will read term sheets, pricing docs, and confirmations, and monitor lifecycle events while handling complex exotic structures.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience with deep, hands‑on knowledge of equity derivatives, specifically complex/exotic option structures, not vanilla or delta‑one products
• Prior experience in Middle Office, Trade Control, or Trade Validation functions
• Experience with Sophis strongly preferred
• Strong ability to read and interpret term sheets, confirmations, and pricing/legal documentation
• Product‑oriented
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Perform end-to-end trade validation and control for equity derivatives and structured equity payoff products, ensuring bookings in internal systems are accurate and complete
• Validate trade economics against term sheets, confirmations, trader recaps, and booking models
• Review and validate complex, non‑vanilla product structures: barriers, autocallables, digitals, knock‑in/knock‑out features, coupon structures, and basket/index underlyings
• Investigate and resolve trade capture issues and discrepancies, working closely with Sales, Structuring, Operations, Risk, and IT
• Monitor trade lifecycle events, amendments, cancellations, novations, resets, corporate actions, fixings, and maturities
• Run daily reconciliation and control checks to catch missing, unmatched, or incorrectly booked trades
• If you have an automation or scripting background, there's room to help define specs and propose enhancements to the validation process (Python a plus, not required)

Skills

Equity derivatives

Trade validation

Python basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field

Tools

Sophis

Job description

As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specialized in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Through our core human values – proximity, teamwork, diversity, excellence – our 1000 expert consultants, hailing from 35 different nationalities, collaborate across 13 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, Casablanca, Madrid and Singapore.

Context :

A global financial institution is building out its New York trade control function for equity derivatives and structured products, complementing an established team based in Paris. This is a hands‑on, product‑first role for someone who lives in the details of exotic equity derivative structures

Your Role :

• Perform end-to-end trade validation and control for equity derivatives and structured equity payoff products, ensuring bookings in internal systems are accurate and complete
• Validate trade economics against term sheets, confirmations, trader recaps, and booking models
• Review and validate complex, non‑vanilla product structures: barriers, autocallables, digitals, knock‑in/knock‑out features, coupon structures, and basket/index underlyings
• Investigate and resolve trade capture issues and discrepancies, working closely with Sales, Structuring, Operations, Risk, and IT
• Monitor trade lifecycle events, amendments, cancellations, novations, resets, corporate actions, fixings, and maturities
• Run daily reconciliation and control checks to catch missing, unmatched, or incorrectly booked trades
• If you have an automation or scripting background, there's room to help define specs and propose enhancements to the validation process (Python a plus, not required)

What We’re Looking For :

• 5-10 years of experience with deep, hands‑on knowledge of equity derivatives, specifically complex/exotic option structures, not vanilla or delta‑one products
• Prior experience in Middle Office, Trade Control, or Trade Validation functions
• Experience with Sophis strongly preferred
• Strong ability to read and interpret term sheets, confirmations, and pricing/legal documentation
• Product‑oriented
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field