Internship - Trading Operations Analyst

Virtu Financial

Nov 30, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Business, Operations & Strategy
Austin

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field preferred (Business, Finance, and Economics academic backgrounds preferred)
Strong experience with SQL and Python required
Outstanding quantitative problem‐solving skills
The ability to communicate information precisely and with agility to parties, both internal and external
A team player with a good attitude and flexibility in their time commitment to the job
Highly motivated and tenacious individual, with a proven ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team environment

Responsibilities

Our Trading Operations team is looking to hire an Operations Analyst Intern to support the logistics, mechanics and back office workflows that are the foundation of trading at our firm. This team is responsible for managing the clearance, settlement, and reconciliation of all trades and positions on behalf of trade desks for the firm. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with traders, finance, compliance, brokers, custodians, and firm customers to ensure timely settlement of trades, accuracy of books and records, and avoidance of unanticipated risk to both the firm and its customers.
Location: Austin
Dates: 10 week program, starting June 10th 2024 - August 16th 2024 (with some flexibility if needed).
Training: Ongoing training throughout the summer
Projects: Real problems to solve throughout the program. Interns will work from a list of projects and have several senior mentors throughout the summer program.

Application Process

After passing an application screening, candidates will be sent an online programming test via email from a service called Codility. This is to gain an understanding of the candidates coding ability.

Virtu Financial

Transparent trading solutions meet advanced technology

Finance

Industry

501-1000

Employees

2008

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. We combine our market structure expertise and execution technology to provide deep liquidity and competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues in 36 countries and unrivaled execution technology to our clients, while creating more efficient and stable markets worldwide. We strongly believe that transparency enables market participants to make better, more informed decisions while making markets more efficient. We strictly adhere to our core set of client values with each and every trade: Transparency, Reliability & Virtue.