Operations Analyst

Optiver • New York, NY

1d • $110,000 - $133,500 • Onsite

About The Position

The OES Operations team is critical to our trading business. We manage the processes that connect us to exchanges, counterparties, and internal teams — ensuring assets, information, and trades flow accurately and efficiently. As our desk expands into ETF and cash equities trading, we need a sharp, driven operations analyst to own critical workflows end-to-end while helping build the next generation of our operational infrastructure. This role offers direct exposure to the fast-paced environment of front office trading. You will work alongside traders daily, supporting trading functions and ensuring seamless communication between internal teams, external stakeholders, and clearing firms.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in trade support or operations within financial markets (ETF and cash equities operations experience preferred), ideally on a trading desk or bank
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle: booking, reconciliation, confirmation, and settlement
• Excellent communication skills — you'll be the point of contact for traders, counterparties, and exchanges daily
• Detail-oriented critical thinker who thrives under pressure and can manage competing priorities
• Self-motivated and takes ownership — you see a problem, you fix it
• Enjoys working with large datasets to find patterns and identify irregularities
• Strong proficiency in Excel

Nice To Haves

• ETF and cash equities operations experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Own the full trade lifecycle for ETF/cash equities and options: trade capture, confirmation, clearing, and settlement
• Compile and reconcile data from electronic and voice trades
• Resolve erroneous, broken, or unmatched trades with urgency
• Monitor and control post-trade processes, proactively identifying and mitigating operational risk
• Act as liaison between desk traders, external dealers, brokers, and clearing firms
• Identify manual workflows and design improvements to reduce operational risk and increase scalability
• Build tools, reports, and dashboards to enhance daily trading operations
• Collaborate with developers and traders to streamline systems and data flows
• Continuously optimize processes — challenge existing workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and risk controls
• Coordinate end-to-end onboarding of new counterparties — gathering KYC/AML documentation, liaising with Legal and Compliance, and tracking progress through to completion

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed