Middle Office Operations Analyst

CTC Lateral•Chicago, IL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Analyst in Middle Office, you will directly support our team mission to provide accurate and timely reporting on trading activity and financial metrics, while maintaining strong financial operations controls and data visualizations for our internal customers. You will contribute to our role as an independent control department ensuring P&L accuracy and reconciliation of trades and valuations between trading systems, clearing firms, and account administrators.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a finance or quantitative discipline.
1-3 years experience in a financial or analytical role.
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, vlookups).
Effective communicator, collaborative, and eager to learn.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Middle Office, Trading Operations, or similar functions is a plus.
knowledge of SQL and Python is preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage daily reconciliation and reporting of positions, P&L, trading volumes, capital, and other metrics to ensure accuracy and timeliness for business stakeholders.
Research trade breaks in collaboration with the trading desks, clearing counterparties and fund administrator across asset classes (equities, fixed income, futures, options, etc.).
Support maintenance and validation of financial controls and reporting to provide analysis and performance metrics that help trading desks and leadership quickly assess and improve both current and new business initiatives.
Work with the Development teams to help prioritize and identify requirements for reporting and control systems enhancements.
Collect and clean trading and financial data to facilitate analysis and visualizations for internal teams.
Help maintain and reconcile fee and rebate models, brokerage transactions, and ensure subledger accuracy versus the general ledger.
Assist internal audiences in enhancing data flow and reporting accuracy.
Collaborate with trading, technology, accounting, and financial planning and analysis teams on workflow improvements.