Position Description
The Trade Desk Associate position is an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong technical skills to foster a career in the investment management and trading industry. The successful candidate will be immersed in learning our sophisticated 24-hour automated trading operations.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor trade flow and mitigate trading deltas relative to the model
- Execute trades as required
- Troubleshoot trade discrepancies and top day reconciliation with front, middle and back office groups
- Escalate urgent problems requiring more in-depth knowledge to appropriate internal or external resources
- Understand and become familiar with trading tools/systems used by the trading desk to help resolve issues and make changes as required
- Assist all front office groups with ad hoc requests and projects
- Monitor operational systems
- Learn Crabel’s operational processes
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of trading experience in futures, OTC FX, equities, or similar markets
- 3+ years of experience with highly automated trade flow
- Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Ability to multi-task
- Proven work ethic, assertive and highly motivated
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Intuitive problem-solving, analytical skills
- Strong communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- A positive and professional attitude in combination with a high level of integrity and ethical standards
- Willingness and flexibility to cover overnight trading hours
- Experience working night hours preferred, but not required
- Prior experience in a dynamic, professional trading/execution environment strongly preferred
- Knowledge of investment instruments, general industry practices, market structures, execution and measurement techniques, regulatory environment and specific securities laws and regulations
- Knowledge of the context in which trading activity occurs (i.e., favorable, and unfavorable effects of various transactions)
What You'll Need to be Successful:
- Strives towards continuous improvement
- High integrity, honest and ethical in both words and actions
- Escalate urgent problems to appropriate internal or external resources
- Ability to communicate effectively with external parties
- Espouses Crabel culture