Operations Analyst - Listed Derivatives

Overview

In this role you will support end-to-end listed derivatives operations within a multi-region team, ensuring efficient trade support, settlement, and reconciliation. You will collaborate with trading, risk, technology, and brokers to resolve queries and drive smooth onboarding for new funds. You’ll identify process improvements with automation and AI to enhance controls, monitoring, and reporting. The position offers exposure to a global, fast-paced environment and the opportunity to shape core post-trade operations.

Responsibilities

• Process and control daily listed derivatives activity from trade support through settlement and reconciliation
• Monitor global exchange expiry calendars and support delivery management, exercise decisions, assignment activity, and clearing workflows
• Support futures rollovers, settlement, expiry, and delivery, including bond-futures delivery coordination with clearing brokers and counterparties
• Investigate daily reconciliation breaks across clearing brokers, identify root causes, and drive timely resolution with internal and external stakeholders
• Administer give-up agreements, commission tracking, broker billing, and accurate fee structures
• Support account setup, documentation, and operational readiness for new fund launches and mandates
• Coordinate with trading, risk, technology, prime brokers, clearing brokers, and exchanges to resolve trade and operational queries, and ensure effective handovers across London, New York, Singapore, and Bangalore
• Identify process improvements through automation and AI-enabled tools, including reconciliation-break analysis, reporting, operational monitoring, and data analysis

Key requirements

• 2+ years in financial operations, middle office, trade support, or related role
• Knowledge of the listed derivatives lifecycle from execution to settlement, including options exercise, assignment, expiry, and clearing, plus futures rollover, settlement, and delivery workflows
• Familiarity with trade reconciliation, clearing and margin workflows, give-up agreements, commission structures, and broker billing is advantageous
• Experience with bond futures and physical-delivery processes, global listed derivatives markets, JIRA or similar project-tracking tools, and AI/automation platforms advantageous
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately under time pressure, especially during expiry cycles
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to investigate discrepancies, manage data, and progress issues to resolution, with excellent written and verbal communication
• Comfort with data and spreadsheets, and willingness to learn reconciliation, trading, and operational systems
• Proactive, collaborative mindset and ability to work with globally distributed teams across time zones, with interest in AI tools and automation to improve processes, controls, analysis, reporting, and monitoring

• attention to detail
• analytical thinking
• clear communication
• JIRA
• AI/automation platforms
• data analysis

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