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Senior Middle Office Analyst

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Optiver

Optiver

1,001-5,000 employees

Global market maker providing liquidity services

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Fintech
Quantitative Finance
Financial Services

Junior, Mid

London, UK

Category
Sales & Trading
Finance & Banking
Required Skills
Python
SQL
Requirements
  • Possess a Bachelor’s degree
  • Enjoy working in a fast-paced and challenging production environment
  • Have the ability to proactively identify both technical and operational deficiencies
  • Can automate and improve processes by learning and applying technical tools such as Excel, VBA, Python Scripting, or SQL
  • Have a strong attention to detail
  • Experience with balancing, trade reconciliation or experience in a trade settlement role is a plus, but not required.
Responsibilities
  • Prepare all daily, intraday, and monthly reconciliations and address any exceptions
  • Use scripts and queries to research and analyse reconciliation issues on daily and monthly intervals
  • Identify, resolve and analyse differences in PnL
  • Develop fluency with existing systems, infrastructure, and procedures and proactively improve them
  • Identify opportunities to intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control
  • Gather and analyse metrics to improve and report on the performance and efficiency of back office systems
  • Work in tandem with back office engineering to ensure the health and stability of the back office processes and systems
  • Continually drive systems toward cleanliness, simplicity, and reliability
  • Create documentation to ensure processes and tasks are consistent and repeatable as well as increase knowledge sharing across the back office team.

Optiver is a global market maker that provides liquidity in financial markets, allowing assets to be bought and sold easily without affecting their prices. They serve institutional clients like banks and hedge funds by offering competitive prices for various financial instruments, including stocks and derivatives. Using advanced technology and algorithms, Optiver engages in proprietary trading, capturing profits from the small differences between buying and selling prices. Their goal is to enhance market stability and efficiency, benefiting all market participants.

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Founded

1986

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

22%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Optiver's significant investment in new office space in Austin, Texas, indicates strong growth and expansion opportunities.
  • Partnerships with academic institutions like Imperial College London highlight Optiver's dedication to nurturing future talent and innovation in trading.
  • Collaborations with platforms like Kaggle for predictive challenges demonstrate Optiver's commitment to leveraging data science and machine learning for market advancements.

What critics are saying

  • The highly competitive nature of proprietary trading means that Optiver must continuously innovate to maintain its edge.
  • Regulatory changes in global financial markets could impact Optiver's operations and profitability.

What makes Optiver unique

  • Optiver's focus on proprietary trading and advanced algorithms allows it to provide liquidity and competitive pricing more efficiently than traditional market makers.
  • Their global presence across over 50 exchanges ensures a diversified and robust market-making operation, unlike smaller, regionally-focused competitors.
  • Optiver's commitment to continuous market improvement and stability sets it apart as a responsible and innovative player in the financial markets.

Benefits

Transparent bonus structure

Top tier benefits

Generous vacation time

Health and wellness programs