Hedge Fund Operations - Commodities
Our client is a leading global hedge fund operating a multi-manager, multi-strategy platform with investments across Quantitative Trading, Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short and Capital Markets Trading. In this fast-paced middle office role, you will support the full trade lifecycle, working closely with portfolio managers, risk, and valuation teams to resolve trade issues and ensure operational accuracy.
You will be responsible for maintaining and updating static data, security masters, trades, and positions across systems such as IVP Security Master, Bloomberg AIM, Geneva, Orchestrade, and proprietary platforms. Your focus will be on power products including futures, options, commodities, and swaps, and is ideally suited to candidates with prior experience supporting power and natural gas trading.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Trading, Risk and Valuations teams to manage trade lifecycle events for an array of asset classes with specific focus on power products like futures, options, commodity swaps and other derivatives
- Assist with manual trade bookings, reviewing reconciliations and resolving breaks
- Update static data, security masters, trades, and positions across multiple systems such as IVP Security Master, BBG AIM, Geneva, Orchestrade, and proprietary systems
- Liaise with internal trading ops team and PMs on trade issues from trading platforms
- Identify process gaps, work with internal and external resources to create detailed requirements to solve issues
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience, priority in buy side institutions
- Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, or related discipline with knowledge of complex instruments (i.e.otc options, swaps, futures)
- Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
- Self-starter with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
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