Senior Trade Operations - Quant Hedge Fund - Selby Jennings

Senior Trade Operations Analyst
Location: Paris, France

A leading quantitative investment firm is looking to hire a Senior Trade Operations Analyst to join its expanding operations function. The successful candidate will play a critical role in supporting daily trading activities, ensuring operational efficiency, and helping to build scalable processes that support the firm's continued growth.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative and technology-driven investment business, working alongside operations, trading, technology and external counterparties in a highly dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform daily reconciliations across trades, cash and positions, investigating and resolving breaks with brokers, custodians and fund administrators.
• Manage trade lifecycle events including settlements, corporate actions and exception management.
• Support collateral and cash management activities, including margin monitoring and reconciliations.
• Review and validate fund accounting outputs, including NAV calculations, P&L allocations and fee reconciliations.
• Build and enhance operational controls to ensure accuracy and efficiency across business processes.
• Drive automation initiatives using Python and other technology solutions to streamline workflows.
• Produce and develop operational reporting, dashboards and management information.
• Work closely with trading, portfolio management, fund administrators and prime brokers to support day-to-day business activities.
• Contribute to operational projects, process improvements and scalability initiatives as the business continues to grow.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience within Trade Operations, Middle Office or Investment Operations gained within a hedge fund, asset manager, proprietary trading firm or investment bank.
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle across equities, equity derivatives, futures and FX products.
• Experience reconciling trades, positions, cash and fund accounting data.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Python programming experience and a passion for process automation are highly desirable.
• Experience creating reports, dashboards or operational metrics would be beneficial.
• Ability to work effectively within a fast-paced trading environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related discipline.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to join a high-growth quantitative investment platform.
• Broad exposure across trading operations, fund operations and technology.
• Collaborative and entrepreneurial working environment.
• Significant scope for professional development and progression.
• Competitive compensation package and benefits.