As a Trading Supervisor you will be first responder to incidents and responsible for seeing problems through until resolution, all the while communicating updates to relevant stakeholders and taking preventative action afterwards to ensure the issues do not reoccur. Having a decisive nature and problem-solving mindset are essential to succeeding in this role.
You will be supporting multiple globally oriented automated trading strategies and have the following responsibilities:
- Supervise and monitor our automated trading systems in various markets that we trade in
- Assess live trading for any issues (e.g. risk, compliance, production issues) and quickly respond to unusual behaviours or market conditions.
- Working closely with risk managers and trading teams to alert key staff of any intraday trading issues and collaborating with Optiver's engineers, brokers, and exchanges to resolve problems in real time.
- Documenting procedures and logging production issues as they occur.
WHO YOU ARE:
- At least 5 years’ experience in a Trade Supervision, Trading, Risk, Application Engineering, or similar role.
- Prior trading exposure across asset classes and strategies highly desirable
- An understanding of exchange-specific rules and procedures
- Extremely organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently.
- Excellent communication, project management and time management skills
- Solid experience with high-frequency automated trading strategies will be preferred.
- Experience with Python, Linux command line and the ability to extract and manipulate large data sets will be preferred.
- Full Singapore working rights essential.
WHAT YOU’LL GET:
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.
In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:
- A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
- The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
- Daily breakfast and lunch.
- Weekly in-house chair massages.
- Corporate health insurance.
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.
Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au
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