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Operations Specialist

Flow Traders is a market making firm headquatered in Amsterdam.

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Operations Specialist

Flow Traders is looking for a new Specialist to join our Operations department. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business.  We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. 

You will join the Flow Traders EMEA Operations based in our office in Amsterdam. We have an expanding product universe, covering all major asset classes, including Digital Assets. Our team covers a multitude of areas, and follows the full trade lifecycle. As such, the opportunities to learn and grow are limitless within the organization.

For this role, we are open to hiring someone without experience, as long as you have a desire to learn and develop yourself in the Operations and Middle Office space. If you are interested in the role, but do not have the relevant background, please apply and include a short explanation about your motivation to start in this role at Flow Traders. 

What you will do

  • Monitoring of settlement lifecycle; trade capture, settlements and reconciliations
  • Identify issues affecting settlement cycle
  • Manage and develop relationships across multiple Prime brokers
  • Possess ability to lead and drive process efficiencies
  • Keep management and trading updated on any essential issues
  • Help develop and grow our existing business lines and open new ones

What you need to succeed

  • Be detailed oriented and drive to dig into process
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills
  • Process and critically analyze data and understand inherent risks
  • Good numerical skills
  • Knowledge of SQL, Excel, VBA are beneficial, but not required; an interest to learn these is a must
  • Scripting skills are beneficial but not required

Ambition for 2022 and beyond

We have experienced significant growth in terms of people, geographies, and financial performance since it was formed in 2004. A key part of this has been the diversification of our product offering, which most recently saw us move into digital assets and fixed income. We have also continued to onboard additional counterparties to our fast-growing network, and going forward, will further expand our trading capabilities and infrastructure. In the coming years we will focus on hiring some of the brightest talent in the sector, helping us expand our footprint as a key player in the global financial market ecosystem.  

Company culture

At Flow Traders our entrepreneurial culture puts you in the driving seat of your own career, offering you the opportunity to create your own, unique path in the fast-moving world of global financial markets. And while we give you the freedom and support to develop internally, our team-oriented philosophy means your contributions to the company will be recognized and rewarded.

What we offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer a competitive salary, an annual discretionary profit share and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

  • Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
  • Our own company boat
  • In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
  • In-house Bar and Lounge with an arcade, table tennis, billiards table and game consoles
  • Daily catered lunch, amazing coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
  • Weekly chair massages
  • Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
  • Global rotations between our offices worldwide
  • and more!