Senior Associate - GTO Middle Office - PnL & Valuation

About the role

The Senior Associate - GTO Middle Office - PnL & Valuation position within DRW involves providing dedicated support to DRW’s trading desks. Key responsibilities include reconciliation, profit-and-loss calculation and analysis, and working closely with front office traders, back-office colleagues, and senior management.

Responsibilities

• Provide ownership for and mastery of the processes and workflows needed to support standard operational functions of the firm’s trading desks
• Daily P&L calculation and substantiation: ensuring workflow conforms to and integrates with DRW’s standards
• Mastery of the firm’s proprietary and third-party trade capture, inventory management, and P&L reporting systems
• Resolve issues between internal groups at DRW and multiple external exchanges, advise on needed enhancements to technology, workflows, and processes
• Support traders’ individual risk management tools and upgrade/troubleshoot related tools
• Liaise with technical personnel to secure proper support/coverage for ongoing operations and implement enhanced workflows
• Closely work with Business Liaison team to assure new desks, traders, and products are on-boarded correctly

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in middle or back office with strong knowledge and expertise in derivative valuations
• Prior interaction with front office and senior management teams in an active trading environment preferred
• Ability to navigate and analyze P&L across various asset types
• Strong MS Excel skills, including VBA experience
• Python coding skills preferred but not required
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics or material equivalent exposure
• Demonstrated ability to independently and quickly solve problems
• Able to perform repeatable tasks with consistent results
• Able to handle sensitive financial data appropriately

Qualifications

• Experience with databases and utilizing data from APIs
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly effective communication skills for regular, direct interaction with a variety of other teams across the firm

Benefits

The position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and comes with a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.