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About Us:
Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 350 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.
As an Operations Analyst, your work will involve monitoring trade settlements, monitoring trade comparison, communicating settlement status to traders. In this role, you'll have regular, direct interaction with a variety of teams, including finance, technology, operations, and the front office. The ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high degree of professionalism is paramount.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee comparison and matching of trades with counterparties
- Adopt, integrate, and promote new technology as it becomes available
- Ensure that all trades (Cash, Repo and Futures) are accurately entered; by entering trades manually, checking trades entered by traders, verbally checking trades with brokers and monitoring electronic feeds to ensure that all trades are accurately imported.
- Ensure that all cash and Repo trading activity is imported to the back office system and submitted to the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation ("FICC") in an accurate and timely fashion.
- Ensure that all trading activity is submitted for processing in an accurate and timely manner.
- Reconcile trading activity and balances between back offices systems and statements.
- Reconcile back office system settlement and interest information to FICC and clearing bank reports and perform receive and deliver functions in an accurate and timely manner in full compliance with FICC rules.
- Perform receive and deliver functions via the BONY system in support of the futures delivery process in compliance with the CBOT rules.
- Support Fixed Income traders with all operational issues, including execution and maintenance of all repo trades, including creating a report of all positions which need to be financed, executing repo trades, confirming repo trades with counterparties, and ensuring that all issues and money are delivered correctly, while providing details of all repo trades to accounting department and all necessary traders.
- Maintain records retention schedule and update as necessary.
- Communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external contacts.
Requirements :
- Two or more years of experience in detail-oriented role in the financial markets industry, ideally in a back office operations capacity
- Strong Excel Skills, to be able to construct or navigate through complex spreadsheets
- Experience with US Treasury securities or other financial derivatives or products
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or another quantitative field
- Demonstrated high level of customer service and strong communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to be successful collaboratively or independently
- Ability to perform repeatable tasks with consistent results
- Demonstrated ability to understand big picture and anticipate downstream impacts
DV is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DV should submit resumes in response to DV's posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to DV via e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of DV, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DV. DV is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
