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. Requirements: - Experience: Strong background (typically 7+ years) in trade operations or desk support within equities and equity derivatives, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of core processes in a trading environment. - Product knowledge: Strong understanding of equities, options, and equity derivatives across the full trade lifecycle; familiarity with futures and fixed income is a plus. - Controls mindset: High standards for accuracy, data integrity, and auditability; balances speed with rigor and implements preventative controls, not just fixes. - Issue ownership: Proven ability to prioritize by risk and materiality, escalate early, and drive complex breaks/incidents to closure with clear root-cause analysis and durable remediation. - Tools: Proficient with Bloomberg and advanced Excel; able to improve workflows through practical automation using VBA, Python, and SQL (highly regarded). Not required to be a full-time developer but must be able to reduce manual touchpoints and error rates. - Delivery: Comfortable leading operational initiatives end-to-end (scoping, stakeholder alignment, testing/UAT, rollout, documentation), including onboarding new markets/products and scaling desk controls/reporting. - Leadership & mentorship: Demonstrated ability to mentor others through onboarding, coaching, and knowledge-sharing (runbooks/playbooks), and to act as an informal escalation point without requiring formal people management. - Collaboration: Clear communicator who builds positive relationships across trading floors, technology teams, and external partners; able to influence outcomes in fast-moving situations. - Quick to action: Calm under pressure; escalates early when appropriate, follows through to closure, and communicates progress clearly. - Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-moving, evolving environment; stays hands-on while also leading initiatives and uplifting standards. - Traits: Analytical, detail-oriented, and organized; accountable, proactive, and continuous-improvement minded; a reliable, flexible teammate with good judgment.