Operations Analyst

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology, and operations teams functionally around the world.

Role: Operations Analyst 

Team: Operations

Location: London 

Position Overview:

Primary focus on Energy within the Commodities Operations team, who are responsible for trade capture, trade confirmation, settlements, reconciliations and position life-cycle events within the firm.

• Support all aspects of a growing physical and derivative Commodities business, including trade validation, maintenance, affirmation, settlement and reconciliation.
• Validate processes and settle all periodic events to ensure the integrity of the entire trade life cycle.
• Perform position and cash reconciliations both internally and versus external counterparties.
• Perform trade affirmation in multiple systems (depending on asset type) with counterparties to minimize risk.
• Monitoring T+0 trade capture exceptions.
• Processing option assignments and expiries.
• Onboarding new trading counterparties and exchanges.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in Commodities back/middle office desirable but not mandatory.
• Demonstrate basic/intermediate knowledge in Commodities.
• Understand the importance of our team concept. Establish long-lasting organizational relationships that will foster a productive work environment.
• Demonstrate proficiency in written and oral communication skills.
• Working on system and process improvements, and new business initiatives.