Trade Operations Associate

About the role

The Trade Operations Associate role is part of a dynamic team directly involved with the day-to-day trading that is part of Bridgewater’s investment engine. This role is focused on supporting the daily activities on the trading desk and portfolio generation, locking down trading risk, overseeing the quality of our external reporting. You will work directly with traders, portfolio associates, implementation team managers, and our back office partners. It is a role that will both allow and demand very fast learning and evolution. It will provide a fundamental knowledge of how to actively minimize risks and liaise with departments and counterparties to be accountable for sustaining a minimum level of risk.

Responsibilities

• Support daily activities of the trading desk, the portfolio generation team, and are the front office’s primary touch point with Back Office providers.
• Own daily lockdown of trading activity. This includes affirmation of trades, investigating and resolving trade breaks, minimizing risk and ensuring straight through processing to our back office.
• Execute and oversee specific processes to support trading team parameter generation, consuming data from third party vendors to enable portfolio generation, and managing corporate actions.
• Reviewing regulatory filings and counterparty reporting prepared by our third-party vendors.
• Owning and resolving specific inquiries and ensure timely resolution.
• Reporting metrics and statistics that enable the team to make decisions and constantly improve the department.

Requirements

• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership.
• Able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating.
• Have a sense of pride, ownership and accountability in the work that you own.
• Weigh what they know and understand in determining confidence.
• Open to other perspectives than your own, without accepting illogical/irrational ones.
• Able to reflect objectively on one's own behavior; step above oneself and see things from a higher level with a good understanding of their strengths/weaknesses in a particular situation.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Possess a BA/BS in numerical or business-based discipline, with a quality academic record, from an accredited undergraduate institution. Experience with Trading Backoffice Operations is preferred but not required.

Physical Requirements

This is a fully on-site role (5 days/week), and this employee will work from our office in Westport, CT.

Benefits

Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits, including:

• Training program of structured classes and on-the-job apprenticeship.
• Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.
• Compensation Band: The wage range for this role is $120,000 - $135,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.

Pay

The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of the wage range.

Schedule

This is a full-time role (5 days/week).