Trading Operations Associate
Brooklyn Investment Group is an SEC-registered Investment Adviser that leverages the technology of its parent company, Brooklyn Artificial Intelligence Research. This technology is combined with institutional-grade portfolio optimization and automated tax-loss harvesting to power personalized portfolios for our clients, including financial advisory firms and asset managers.
Over the past five years, Brooklyn Artificial Intelligence Research has developed one of the most powerful engines for customizing investment portfolios and more than $5 billion has been traded on its portfolios to date.
Our growing team of 20+ quant investors, machine learning researchers, and software engineers comes from top universities and financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Bridgewater Associates.
Opportunity
As a Trading Operations Associate, you'll be the main point of contact for our clients, operational partners, and custodians, overseeing trade execution and reconciliation processes, primarily in public equities.
Key Responsibilities and Duties - Execute trading workflow, including pre and post trade checks, order generation/algo selection
- Supervise reconciliation processes and certify account status
- Act as a liaison and main point-of-contact with our operational partners and custodians
- Identify, investigate and remedy issues with trade execution, allocation and account positions
- Query trading and market data and create reports
- Monitor and analyze execution quality and identify opportunities for improvement
- Serve as a client-facing point of contact for portfolio management, trading, and reporting
- Coordinate with the portfolio construction team to ensure a seamless client experience
- Support integration efforts with execution providers and clients
- Analyze transaction and lot data for anomalies or errors
- Assist in implementation of feature enhancements to the trading and reconciliation systems.
Educational Requirements - University (Degree) Preferred
Work Experience - 2+ Years Required; 3+ Years Preferred
Career Level 6IC
Qualifications: Required: - Minimum of 2 years of experience in equities portfolio management, trading, or investment operations
Preferred: - 3 years of experience in equities portfolio management, trading, or investment operations
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Experience with block and algorithmic trading
- Experience with financial data querying and analysis
- Desire to work in fast-paced environment that's at the cutting edge of asset management innovation
- Experience with Order Management Systems
- Experience interacting with custodian platforms, like Schwab and Fidelity
- Experience with Python and SQL
- Experience in accounting and tax loss harvesting (preferred)
- Experience in C#, Rust, and Unix (preferred)
- Experience with AWS (preferred)
Anticipated Posting End Date: 2026-01-28
Base Pay Range: $125,000/yr - $200,000/yr
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).
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