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About the Role

Middle Office provides independent control of trading activities, validating the trading balance sheet and ensuring accurate P&L reporting. The team supports the business by providing timely and accurate information and optimizing operational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Accountability for the execution and timely reporting of daily P&L through validation and ownership of the trading balance sheet and trading position reporting, in line with global policy.
• Ownership of the month-end Trading ledger process, ensuring accounting in accordance with IFRS pronouncements.
• Creating simplified reporting to understand and explain desk trading strategies.
• Applying knowledge of technology to create solutions for the monitoring, reporting, and accounting of financial instruments.
• Serving as the primary escalation point for the Middle Office Team to advise, train, and assist the Team in delivering workflow efficiencies.
• Guiding and supporting junior team members.
• Identifying and initiating small projects to improve efficiencies.
• Supporting Middle Office team with ad hoc improvement requests.
• Ensuring operational optimization for new trading initiatives.

Requirements

• Information Technology, Data Science or related degree and/or Finance or related degree with strong technology and data capabilities.
• Australian citizen or permanent resident.
• 3+ years in creating and delivering Technology based solutions.
• Additional experience in Data Science or AI solutions desirable.
• Strong understanding of coding and creating automated solutions.
• Self-Starter with strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Skills

• Databricks
• Python
• SQL
• AI Agent development experience desirable

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3+ years

Education Level

• Information Technology, Data Science or related degree
• Finance or related degree

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Attractive bonus structure
• Additional leave entitlements
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Gym membership
• Weekly in-house chair massages
• Daily breakfast
• Daily lunch
• In-house barista
• Regular social events
• Company trip every two years

About the Company

• Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai.
• Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management.
• By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.
• We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.
• Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products.
• Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, India, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

Equal Opportunity

• Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.