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2025-06-24

Middle Office Senior Analyst

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Chicago Trading Company
Middle Office Senior Analyst
Chicago, US
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Job Description

The Role

CTC's Middle Office team acts as an independent control function, partnering with the business to drive integrity in our books and records—ensuring the accuracy of profit & loss (P&L) reporting, trade reconciliation, and valuation between trading desks and clearing partners. With CTC’s expansion into new ventures, our scope is broad and the complexity ever-increasing.

We’re at a pivotal point: Outgrowing legacy reporting in Excel and embracing robust BI and database technologies like SQL/Snowflake, Python, Tableau/Sigma. We're looking for a passionate Senior Analyst to join the team—someone eager to blend analytical rigor, process improvement, and cross-functional partnership as we redesign our reporting, automate workflows, and deliver insights that drive CTC’s growth.

What You Will Do

  • **Deliver & Enhance Reporting: **Own daily and monthly reporting and reconciliations across P&L, capital, volumes, and other key trading metrics for stakeholders such as Trading, Risk, Finance, and Senior Management.
  • Elevate Cost Transparency: Oversee fee data governance and mapping and further develop analytics around cost per trade—powering transparency and strategic decisions for our trading teams.
  • Financial Analysis with Impact: Conduct in-depth research and analysis on trade and business data, distill complex findings into actionable insights, and present results to business leadership for process, risk, and performance improvements.
  • Build Next-Gen Tools: Lead and contribute to the design and implementation of ad-hoc and standardized reports using technology such as SQL, Python, and other BI tools supporting a range of operational and business needs (e.g., reconciliation accuracy, trade flow transparency, and profitability tracking).
  • **Drive Automation & Scale: **Collaborate with Technology and Operations to upgrade manual processes to robust workflows—leveraging modern tools to enable stable, scalable reporting and data integrity.
  • Partner Across CTC: Act as a connector across Trading, Operations, and Technology to ensure data consistency, process alignment, and continuous improvement.

What We Are Looking For

  • At least 3+ years of experience in a Middle Office, Risk Management, or similar technical role
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL, Python/VBA/R, and Excel
  • Experience with partnering with senior stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver reporting solutions using BI/reporting tools (such as Tableau or Sigma)
  • Strong analytical skills with a proven track record in process improvement, troubleshooting data/reconciliation issues, and delivering clear, concise reporting to a variety of audiences.
  • An understanding of financial markets, control functions and accounting concepts
  • Self-motivation and intellectual curiosity; desire to continually self-improve and seek continual process and system improvements through increased automation
  • Bachelor’s degree in a financial discipline preferred
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