Senior Trade Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:
- Own day-to-day trade control, including capturing, reconciling, and validating trades, transactions, positions, and cash. Resolve breaks quickly and permanently through root-cause fixes.
- Maintain ownership of P&L and positions by keeping intra-day and end-of-day views accurate, investigating variances, and driving corrective and preventative actions.
- Operate within established controls and compliance frameworks, executing processes in line with exchange and regulatory requirements. Support required submissions and maintain audit-ready evidence.
- Support execution integrity by using algorithmic tools under trader instruction and ensuring OMS/EMS, exchange systems, internal applications, and spreadsheets are accurate and synchronized.
- Partner closely with traders, dealers, brokers, clearing, middle/back office, and technology teams to ensure smooth information flow and unblock issues.
- Act as a first-line escalation point for complex breaks and incidents, prioritizing by risk and materiality, and driving issues to closure with clear communication.
- Streamline and automate workflows, reconciliations, and reporting using Excel, VBA, Python, and SQL to reduce manual touchpoints, error rates, and time-to-resolve.
- Build scalable desk infrastructure, including SOPs, checklists, dashboards, and preventative controls to improve reliability, transparency, and auditability as the desk grows.
- Lead delivery of initiatives such as onboarding new markets/products and running operational projects from scoping through rollout, including UAT, change management, and documentation.
- Mentor and develop junior analysts and new joiners through structured onboarding, shadowing, coaching, and knowledge-sharing (runbooks/playbooks).
- Raise standards across the team through consistent documentation, process discipline, and continuous improvement habits.