Trading Operations Associate
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Your Role:
As an Trading Operations Associate, you will provide high-quality support to enterprise-level clients, addressing issues related to order entry, execution, best ex, trade surveillance and high-touch order handling. You will build and maintain strong relationships, proactively monitoring client trading activity to ensure smooth operations. Collaborating with trading operations desks, IT, and compliance teams, you’ll resolve issues and offer relevant market insights. Additionally, you will ensure all trading activities comply with regulatory requirements while identifying and addressing potential risks. Your role will also involve gathering client feedback to enhance services and tools.
Key Responsibilities:
Customer Support:
- Deliver high-quality support to enterprise-level clients through various channels (phone, email, chat).
- Investigate and resolve issues related to account management, order entry, processing, execution, FIX sessions, and OMS functionality.
- Assist clients with troubleshooting and technical issues to ensure seamless operations.
Trading Services:
- Monitor client accounts and trading activity for anomalies, providing timely alerts and support as necessary.
- Stay informed on market developments and trading infrastructure to offer relevant guidance and insights to clients.
- Monitor corporate actions, including dividends, stock splits, mergers, and other events, ensuring accurate and timely communication and resolution.
Collaboration and Feedback:
- Work closely with trading desks, operation, IT, and compliance teams to address and resolve client issues efficiently.
- Collect client feedback and share insights with product development and management teams to refine services and tools.
Compliance and Risk Management:
- Ensure all client interactions and trading-related activities adhere to regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Proactively identify and address potential risks associated with client operations and trading processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
- At least 2-3 years of experience in brokerage operations, trading, or a related field.
- Proven experience in customer support, relationship management, and trading services.
- Demonstrated experience with trading platforms and equities trading and familiarity with FIX protocol. Options experience is a plus.
- Must either possess FINRA series 7, 63 or local equivalent with a willingness to obtain in the first 6 months.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders.
- Proficient verbal communication skills in a language other than English. French, German, or Arabic are a plus.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- High ethical standards and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality.
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Alpaca
View Company ProfileAlpaca is a developer-first API brokerage platform and a fully registered, self-clearing US broker-dealer. Their mission is to open financial services to everyone on the planet. Instead of building a flashy consumer trading app like Robinhood, Alpaca built the underlying infrastructure. They offer powerful, modern APIs that allow algorithmic traders, hedge funds, and global FinTech startups to instantly build customizable investing applications. Whether a developer wants to write a Python script to automate their own stock trades, or an international startup wants to offer US stock investing to its users in Latin America or the Middle East, Alpaca provides the complete backend infrastructure to make it happen.
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