Associate, Futures Brokerage

About the role

Join Macquarie's Commodities and Global Markets Operations team as an Associate/Vice President, Brokerage, where you'll play a critical role in supporting execution services and enhancing operational controls across the Futures and Options business. This is an opportunity to leverage your industry expertise to drive process improvements, reduce operational risk, and partner with stakeholders across the front, middle, and back office functions in a highly collaborative and global environment.

What role will you play?

As an Associate within the Brokerage team, you will oversee key operational controls related to brokerage revenue streams, front office operating expenses, and agency payment arrangements supporting execution services. You will partner closely with front office, clearing, operations, technology, compliance, and legal teams to ensure operational processes are efficient, well-controlled, and scalable. The role involves reviewing existing workflows, identifying opportunities to strengthen controls and mitigate risk, and driving initiatives that improve the overall brokerage operating model. You will also support documentation processes through the FIA Docs platform and assist with related accounts payable activities.

What You Offer

• 5+ years of experience within a U.S. FCM or comparable global organization in futures and options operations, middle office, market operations, or brokerage support functions.
• Strong understanding of futures and options products, execution services, brokerage operations, and the full trade lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience identifying control gaps, improving operational processes, and implementing efficiencies within a regulated financial services environment.
• Ability to effectively partner with front office, middle office, back office, technology, compliance, legal, and clearing teams to deliver solutions and resolve issues.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.

Pay

Salary range for this position: $101,000 - $137,000/Year. Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, peer and market data, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. You may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award.

Benefits

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave
• 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing such as medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account and dependent day care savings account; life insurance, disability, and other insurance plans; 401(k) and short/long term disability
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Recognition and service awards
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Commodities and Global Markets

Commodities and Global Markets is a global business offering capital and financing, risk management, market access, physical execution and logistics solutions to its diverse client base across Commodities, Financial Markets and Asset Finance.