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Middle Office Manager

Optiver162 open roles

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Your applicationOpen nowMiddle Office ManagerOptiver · Sydney, Australia

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The posting

As a Middle Office Manager, you’ll play a key role in providing independent oversight and assurance over the valuation and integrity of Optiver’s trading balance sheet.

The Middle Office team provides independent control and oversight of trading activities, ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the trading balance sheet, fair value assessments and P&L reporting. Working closely with Trading, Finance and other key stakeholders, the team manages critical controls across trading transactions and provides timely, accurate financial information to support effective decision-making.

In this role, you’ll combine strong technical expertise with a commercial mindset, helping maintain a robust control environment while supporting the continued growth and complexity of Optiver’s trading activities.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

In this broad and exciting role, your main responsibilities will include:

  • Accountability for the design, execution, and operating assurance of all trading book independent controls.
  • Driving the Middle Office agenda across the organisation, ensuring new and emerging risks in our various products and markets are identified, escalated, and managed appropriately.
  • Applying your knowledge of financial products and accounting standards to ensure correct valuation and accounting of financial instruments on the balance sheet.
  • Partnering with Traders and other stakeholders to ensure position and valuation verification is adequately addressed in all new business activities.
  • Driving various technology and automation initiatives through the Middle Office team, working collaboratively with technology teams.
  • Leading the broader Middle Office team on key initiatives and contributing to the active learnings and development of future control talent in the team.

WHO YOU ARE

You will have had several years’ (~8+) experience working in a Product Control, Valuation, or Market Risk role with demonstrated subject matter expertise in valuation, risk management and accounting for all types of financial instruments.

To be considered, you should possess:

  • Finance or related bachelor’s degree
  • CA/CPA or international equivalent
  • A strong understanding of the fundamentals of valuation, risk management and accounting for exchange and over the counter cash and derivative financial instruments
  • An innate drive to succeed and collaborate with high performing individuals
  • Strong data analysis and problem-solving capabilities in various applications, Excel, VBA, various BI tools, SQL, Python, etc

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

  • A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry.
  • The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
  • Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
  • Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
  • Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
  • Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at [email protected]

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