Financial Operations Associate, Corporate Actions

Jump Trading Jump Trading · Quant · Chicago, New York City · Operations

Financial Operations Associate, Corporate Actions role at Jump Trading, focusing on building and maintaining lifecycle event processing, reconciliations, and identifying process improvements. Requires experience in corporate actions, asset class knowledge, project management, and leveraging technology/automation/AI tools. The role involves collaborating with technology teams to implement solutions and improve back-office infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build out and maintain lifecycle event processing and associated broker reconciliations.
  2. Investigate and resolve breaks identified through daily and monthly reconciliation processes.
  3. Proactively identify process improvement opportunities and partner with technology teams to design and implement solutions.
  4. Contribute to the ongoing development of Jump's back-office infrastructure, identifying value-add opportunities to further leverage existing systems and tools.
  5. Collaborate cross-functionally with back-office, technology, and other internal stakeholders to drive operational excellence.

Skills

Required

  • background in corporate actions and dividends
  • global experience
  • Deep asset class knowledge across equities, swaps, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, etc.
  • Strong project management and business analysis experience within trade operations
  • Experience leveraging technology, automation, and/or AI tools to improve operational processes
  • Comfort reviewing large sets of data with limited direction
  • Accomplished communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate in English (written and verbal) to both internal and external contacts on a global basis
  • Excellent organizational and critical thinking skills
  • Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or related fields
  • Reliable and consistent availability during the US trading day to support time-sensitive operational processes
  • 5+ years of work experience, preferably in a trade operations or reconciliation role

Nice to have

  • Experience managing a small team and/or function is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • global experience
  • Deep asset class knowledge
  • Strong project management and business analysis experience
  • Experience leveraging technology, automation, and/or AI tools
  • Comfort reviewing large sets of data with limited direction
  • Accomplished communication skills
  • Excellent organizational and critical thinking skills