Bridgewater89

Bridgewater89

Trade Operations Associate

Westport, CT

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
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About the role

  • Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating.
  • We are responsible for implementing the investment views of the world's largest hedge fund while minimizing transaction costs and information leakage.
  • The Trade Operations Associate role is part of a dynamic team directly involved with the day-to-day trading that is part of Bridgewater's investment engine.

Responsibilities

  • Support daily activities of the trading desk, the portfolio generation team, and are the front office's primary touch point with Back Office providers.
  • You will be working closely with traders, the portfolio generation team, Back Office partners, strategists, technologists, and vendors
  • Own daily lockdown of trading activity. This includes affirmation of trades, investigating and resolving trade breaks, minimizing risk and ensuring straight through processing to our back office
  • Execute and oversee specific processes to support trading team parameter generation, consuming data from third party vendors to enable portfolio generation, and managing corporate actions.
  • Have a sense of pride, ownership and accountability in the work that you own. <span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559737":-20,"335559738":60,"335559739":60,"
  • Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world's markets and economies work - using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Requirements

  • Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership
  • It will provide a fundamental knowledge of how to actively minimize risks and liaise with departments and counterparties to be accountable for sustaining a minimum level of risk.

Company info

  • Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs.
  • Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit.
  • Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs.
  • Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market.
  • We do this by constantly deepening our understanding of liquidity and market dynamics to develop systematic, non-discretionary trade execution strategies.
  • About Your Role
  • This role is focused on supporting the daily activities on the trading desk and portfolio generation, locking down trading risk, overseeing the quality of our external reporting.
  • You will work directly with traders, portfolio associates, implementation team managers, and our back office partners.
  • It is a role that will both allow and demand very fast learning and evolution.
  • Further, the role involves dealing with a fast paced, detail-oriented environment, where accuracy and control are vital, and excellent communication and escalation is paramount.
  • This position also requires flexibility to support different markets across many asset classes throughout the Global trading day, and as such, it will provide a uniquely wide foundation of understanding.
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