Financial Operations Associate, Derivatives

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics Physics and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries push through them and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness creativity intellectual honesty and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design develop and deploy technologies that change our world fund start-ups across industries and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

This is an exciting role for an individual with equity/index derivatives experience to join our Financial Operations team based in Hong Kong or Singapore. You will be joining a group aimed at building out a PnL and reconciliation function at Jump. This individual will be playing a major role in the further development of Jumps systems and processes while collaborating across Treasury Clearing Finance Tax and the trading addition this role will be expected to identify tangible opportunities to improve our business operations. You will report to the Head of Financial Operations.

What Youll Do:

• Assist with the buildout and eventual oversight of the firms swap and financing reconciliations including swap resets pay-to-holds PB financing repo financing etc.
• Investigate and resolve breaks stemming from the firms daily and monthly reconciliations.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and work with technology to implement those.
• Assist with the continued development of Jumps back-office infrastructure and finding value-add opportunities to further leverage this infrastructure.
• Collaborate across multiple stakeholders including other parts of the back office and technology.
• Assist in creating written processes and procedures.
• Act as an escalation point for any finance operational issues.
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills Youll Need:

• A background in equity and/or equity-linked derivative operations and portfolio financing.
• Deep asset class knowledge including life cycle events for Total Return Swaps.
• Strong project management and business analysis experience within trade operations.
• Demonstrated examples working with technology to improve processes.
• Comfort reviewing large sets of data with limited direction.
• Accomplished communication skills with a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate (written and verbal) in English to both internal and external contacts on a global basis;proficiency in Mandarin is preferred as a plus skill enabling effective communication with Mandarin-speaking counter parties.
• At least 5 years work experience preferred in a trade operations or reconciliation role.
• Excellent organizational and critical thinking skills.
• Experience managing a small team and/or function is a plus.
• Minimum of bachelors degree in business Accounting Finance or related fields.
• Reliable and predictable availability