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Job Description
Job Title
Senior Clearing Operations Analyst
Job Category
Clearing
Job ID
12776-CN
Location
Chicago, IL
Schedule
M-F 8-5 - This position is split between downtown and Oakbrook Terrace/Lombard area
Description
Position Description: (day-to-day responsibilities and deliverables)
The analyst will train with members of each functional unit in the Clearing House in order to perform their most critical functions. The analyst will continue to train on a regular basis, rotate departments regularly, keeping up to date on the processes, procedures and data flows of the following functional areas; Operations, Financial, Deliveries, Product and Risk Management.
Specifically, the analyst will be responsible for:
- Balancing Bank accounts for firms across multiple units
- Changing firm setups and account structures / or banking relationships
- Process and analyze margin calls / performance bond payments and calls
- Support technical environments, queue setups and understand connectivity of firms
- Resolve connection problems with firms
- Understand Clearing operation for set up of new products and for End of Day cycles
- Monitor FX trades
- Monitor out trades
- Process deliveries for CME and CBOT products
- Update senior management with process inefficiencies and training progress
Requirements
- 5 + years experience in the futures/ financial services industry with experience in back office and/or clearing related operations
- Bachelor’s (BS/BA) degree.
- Competency in exchange or back-office applications such as C21, SWIFT, FEC, Sungard or Rolf and Nolan bookkeeping, etc. a plus.
- Futures or FX back office experience preferred
- Self Starter; willing to request training at appropriate times and work independently
- Ability to Multi task effectively
- Ability to grasp concepts quickly and question when necessary
- Strong writing and project management skills
- Work quickly and accurately under time pressure
- Demonstrate an excellent ability to handle detailed numerical financial information
- Enjoys and excels at project management duties
- Identifying a process to upgrade or make more efficient
- Gather information and manage a team to correct inefficiencies
- Request feedback and progress reports from team members
- Update Sr. management and team members on a regular basis
- Follow project/ task to completion
