Financial Operations Associate, Corporate Actions

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced corporate actions and dividends professional to join our Financial Operations team in Chicago or New York. You'll join a growing team scaling Jump's Financial Operations function, with a meaningful role in shaping our systems and processes.  You'll collaborate broadly across Treasury, Clearing, Finance, Tax, and the trading community — and will be expected to proactively identify tangible opportunities to improve how we operate. This role reports to the Global Head of Financial Operations.

What You’ll Do:

• Build out and maintain lifecycle event processing and associated broker reconciliations.
• Investigate and resolve breaks identified through daily and monthly reconciliation processes.
• Proactively identify process improvement opportunities and partner with technology teams to design and implement solutions.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of Jump's back-office infrastructure, identifying value-add opportunities to further leverage existing systems and tools.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with back-office, technology, and other internal stakeholders to drive operational excellence.
• Document and formalize processes and procedures to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Serve as an escalation point for finance operational issues, driving timely resolution.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• A background in corporate actions and dividends with strong weight placed on a candidate with global experience.
• Deep asset class knowledge across equities, swaps, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, etc.
• Strong project management and business analysis experience within trade operations.
• Experience leveraging technology, automation, and/or AI tools to improve operational processes.
• Comfort reviewing large sets of data with limited direction.
• Accomplished communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate in English (written and verbal) to both internal and external contacts on a global basis.
• Excellent organizational and critical thinking skills.
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or related fields.
• Reliable and consistent availability during the US trading day to support time-sensitive operational processes.
• 5+ years of work experience, preferably in a trade operations or reconciliation role.
• Experience managing a small team and/or function is a plus.