A Career with Point72's Operations Team
Point72’s Operations team supports all operational aspects of trade processing, reconciliation, financing, and reporting firmwide for all products, including equities, derivatives, bonds, foreign exchange and futures, and digital assets across global markets.
What you’ll do
- Lead end-to-end trade lifecycle management across global markets for a wide range of products including equities, options, FX, CFDs, swaps, fixed income, repos, and futures, ensuring timely and accurate trade capture, confirmation, and settlement.
- Reconcile daily positions and cash across multiple counterparties, prime brokers, and custodians; investigate and resolve trade breaks and settlement exceptions to minimize settlement and operational risk.
- Partner with traders, portfolio managers, clearing brokers, and internal teams to resolve trade lifecycle issues, acting as a trusted operational liaison
- Manage the end-to-end processing of mandatory and voluntary corporate actions, determining position impact and executing necessary elections or adjustments.
- Build and implement automation and workflow improvements by identifying process inefficiencies, designing solutions, and partnering with technology to implement and scale changes globally.
- Execute and monitor FX transactions to manage foreign currency exposure that affects PnL and settlement flows.
- Maintain and update security master and reference data during Asian and European trading hours to support seamless post-trade processing across global trading activities.
- Produce and distribute daily exception reports, reconciliations, and operational metrics to senior internal stakeholders and external counterparties, highlighting trends and resolution status.
- Drive cross-functional projects to enhance settlement efficiency, confirmation workflows, and operational risk monitoring.
- Create and maintain process documentation, and contribute to continuous learning and improvement within the team.
What’s required
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Have 2-6 years of experience in middle office operations, trade support, or a closely related function within a financial institution.
• Demonstrated experience handling trade confirmation, settlement, reconciliation, and trade exception resolution across multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives, repos, and futures.
• Hands-on experience processing corporate actions, including assessment of mandatory and voluntary event impacts.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and automation tools such as macros or scripting, and experience using SQL or equivalent tools to analyze data and produce operational reports.
• Working knowledge of market data terminals such as Bloomberg and familiarity with trade confirmation and settlement workflows.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with proven ability to reconcile positions, investigate discrepancies, and resolve issues with prime brokers, custodians, and external counterparties with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with traders, portfolio managers, compliance, technology teams, and external counterparties.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and perform accurately in a fast-paced environment while working across Asian and European trading hours.
• Self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and collaboratively within a global team.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
We take care of our people
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
• Health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
About Point72
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.