Our Back Office Engineering and Operations team is seeking an Operations Analyst. This team is responsible for infrastructure that records and reconciles our trades and positions in addition to various controls and monitoring of our live trading environment.  Within the Operations Analyst role, you will ensure these systems are functioning correctly and allow trading to operate with confidence.

What you’ll do:
• Prepare all daily, intraday, and monthly reconciliations and address any exceptions
• Use scripts and queries to research and analyze reconciliation issues on daily and monthly intervals
• Identify, resolve and analyze differences in PnL
• Develop fluency with existing systems, infrastructure, and procedures and proactively improve them
• Identify opportunities to intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control
• Gather and analyze metrics to improve and report on the performance and efficiency of back office systems
• Work in tandem with back office engineering to ensure the health and stability of the back office processes and systems 
• Continually drive systems toward cleanliness, simplicity, and reliability
• Create documentation to ensure processes and tasks are consistent and repeatable as well as increase knowledge sharing across the back office team

What you’ll need:
• A Bachelor’s degree 
• Ability to proactively identify both technical and operational deficiencies 
• Ability to automate and improve processes by learning and applying technical tools such as Excel, VBA, Scripting, or  SQL 
• Strong attention to detail 
• Experience with balancing, trade reconciliation or experience in a trade settlement role is a plus, but not required
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required; we will not sponsor individuals for employment authorization for this job opening

Who we are: 
Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management. With over 1,000 employees globally and 200 in our Chicago office, our mission to improve the market unites us.