Trade Operations Associate
About The Position
The Trade Operations Associate role is part of a dynamic team directly involved with the day-to-day trading that is part of Bridgewater’s investment engine. This role is focused on supporting the daily activities on the trading desk and portfolio generation, locking down trading risk, overseeing the quality of our external reporting. You will work directly with traders, portfolio associates, implementation team managers, and our back office partners. It is a role that will both allow and demand very fast learning and evolution. It will provide a fundamental knowledge of how to actively minimize risks and liaise with departments and counterparties to be accountable for sustaining a minimum level of risk. Further, the role involves dealing with a fast paced, detail-oriented environment, where accuracy and control are vital, and excellent communication and escalation is paramount. This position also requires flexibility to support different markets across many asset classes throughout the Global trading day, and as such, it will provide a uniquely wide foundation of understanding. As part of the Trading Execution team, this role represents an exciting opportunity to generate substantial impact, test your limitations, and engage with top level thinkers as part of a group that seeks to systematically understand the markets. With focus on discipline, control and risk management, you will support the trading teams to ensure they are fulfilling their responsibilities to trade accurately and efficiently in the market. You will learn how to interpret risks, how to minimize those risks and how to contribute to ensuring repeatable, high quality outcomes.
Requirements
- Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership
- Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating.
- Have a sense of pride, ownership and accountability in the work that you own.
- Weigh what they know and understand in determining confidence. Open to other perspectives than your own, without accepting illogical/irrational ones.
- Are able to reflect objectively on one's own behavior; step above oneself and see things from a higher level with a good understanding of their strengths/weaknesses in a particular situation.
- Possess a BA/BS in numerical or business-based discipline, with a quality academic record, from an accredited undergraduate institution.
- Humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches.
- Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented.
- Honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback.
- Constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Trading Backoffice Operations is preferred but not required
Responsibilities
- Support daily activities of the trading desk, the portfolio generation team, and are the front office’s primary touch point with Back Office providers. You will be working closely with traders, the portfolio generation team, Back Office partners, strategists, technologists, and vendors
- Own daily lockdown of trading activity. This includes affirmation of trades, investigating and resolving trade breaks, minimizing risk and ensuring straight through processing to our back office
- Execute and oversee specific processes to support trading team parameter generation, consuming data from third party vendors to enable portfolio generation, and managing corporate actions.
- Reviewing regulatory filings and counterparty reporting prepared by our third-party vendors
- Owning and resolving specific inquiries and ensure timely resolution
- Reporting metrics and statistics that enable the team to make decisions and constantly improve the department
Benefits
- Competitive suite of benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
