The Middle Office team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Clearing Associate to help optimize the monitoring, processing, and tracking of the clearing operations for all of our US trading. Based in our New York office, you’ll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to build a best in class clearing platform. 

Responsibilities

• Oversee HRT’s US self-clearing operational activities, including receive and deliver, buy-ins, securities lending operations, corporate actions, and moving cash to support settlements
• Review and action on all fail and buy-in risk
• Manage costs effectively around fails and settlements
• Oversee corporate actions through the settlement lifecycle
• Help manage external prime broker relationships from a clearing standpoint
• Collaborate with other HRT teams to identify opportunities for new and improved workflows and processes around US regulations related to operations 
• Interface with external parties on open issues, ad-hoc queries, and reporting needs
• Document complex processes to develop clear Middle Office procedural guidelines
• Work independently in a fast-paced, high pressure environment 

Qualifications

• Familiarity with the post-trade life cycle of US equities, treasuries, futures, FX, and/or options
• Experience with external relationship management, including technology vendors, prime brokers, banks, etc.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems is preferred (we use Linux)
• Some experience in Python is preferred, but eagerness to learn is required
• Excellent communication skills 

Annual base salary range of $100,000 to $150,000. Pay (base and bonus) may vary depending on job-related skills and experience. A sign-on and discretionary performance bonus may be provided as part of the total compensation package, in addition to company-paid medical and/or other benefits.