# Trade Support Specialist

**Company**: Middle Office
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000 to $250,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Trade Support Specialist to join our Operations & Middle Office team at Middle Office in New York.

The Operations & Middle Office team supports Millennium's global investment platform, partnering across functions to deliver reliable, efficient operational processes. This small team supports an Equity Volatility desk and has broad product exposure across global equities, equity and index options, total return swaps, exotic OTC derivatives, futures, and foreign exchange.

Responsibilities:

- Ensure accurate, timely trade capture following execution across equities, equity and index options, exotic OTC derivatives, bonds, futures, and foreign exchange

- Partner with global teams to implement firm initiatives and support operational alignment

- Respond to operational queries from portfolio managers and the Execution Desk

- Monitor corporate actions affecting OTC derivatives and manage trade queues throughout the day

- Support the implementation of new products and related operational processes

- Onboard portfolio managers to Millennium platforms and support the integration of external managers

- Identify and lead strategic process-improvement initiatives through completion

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience supporting an Equity Volatility desk within a financial services firm

- Undergraduate degree in a business-related discipline, such as finance, economics, or accounting

- Strong working knowledge of equity and equity OTC derivatives markets, including autocalls, variance and volatility products, total return swaps, digitals, and QIS

- Clear, effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work closely with portfolio managers and brokers

- Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities and deadlines

- Advanced Excel proficiency

- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and analytical problem-solving ability

- Working knowledge of Imagine, Murex, and Kinetix preferred

Benefits:

- The estimated base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $250,000

- Comprehensive benefits package including a base salary, discretionary performance bonus

## Skills

### Required
- equity and equity OTC derivatives markets
- autocalls
- variance and volatility products
- total return swaps
- digitals
- QIS
- Excel
- organisational skills
- analytical problem-solving ability

### Nice to have
- Imagine
- Murex
- Kinetix

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