Full Job Description
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.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs
Annual Base Salary Range
$120,000-$150,000 USD