Trade Operations Specialist
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Country: United States
Category: Accounting & Finance
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: March 11, 2026
Job ID: 644036
Job Description
Job Title: Trade Operations Specialist
Location: Atlanta, GA
Contract length: 12 months
Schedule: Onsite 4 days per week, fulltime
Pay: $40 to $44.72/hr, DOE
Trade Operations Specialist Job Overview:
Must possess a solid understanding of equity and debt instruments. This individual will develop a level of knowledge within the team enabling them to form partnerships with all key business areas and functions, in particular the trading teams. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring that trade executions are confirmed and settled in order to meet custodian and market deadlines and accurately reflected into downstream systems. Within the role the incumbent will be expected to actively liaise with broker counterparties and investment teams. Involve themselves in the continual development of processes and implementation of new funds and products covered by the desk.
Trade Operations Specialist Responsibilities:
- Support the post execution trade confirmation and settlement processes associated with equity and debt instrument types
- Investigate, analysis and resolution of any post confirmation and settlement trade issues
- Liaise with internal and external Business partners on a daily basis
- Monitor trade flows identifying any breaks in the execution/confirmation process, with timely investigation, analysis and resolution recommendations
- Manually process trade executions that fall outside of the automated processes of trade instructions
- Respond to email / telephone inquiries; taking full ownership to ensure that all inquiries are actioned on day of receipt (resolution or acknowledgement)
- Daily investigation and resolution of reconciliation exceptions raised by Hyderabad reconciliations team
- Actively seek Continuous Improvements opportunities which are measurable and effective
- Maintains and updates procedures base upon agreement with Senior or Supervisor
- Assist in any system testing as required
- Assist other Operations and GPS teams
- Serve as a mentor to tier I Analysts and support and cover to Senior Analyst
- First line checking and sign off of start and end of day task
- Collation of team MIS, on a daily weekly, and monthly basis
Trade Operations Specialist Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
- General understanding of the financial markets; sound knowledge of equity and debt instruments
- Ability to analyze data making sound judgments and proposed resolution steps in respect of any issues arising
- Self-motivation to further enhance skills and financial and product knowledge
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Good interpersonal skills necessary to maintain relationships and interact effectively with individuals at all levels across business functions
- Good awareness of technology applications and software, in order to support growing trading complexity and automation efficiencies
Trade Operations Specialist Preferred Qualifications:
- Securities / investment industry within the trade support area is desirable
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math or related field is desirable
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