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Trading Operations Analyst

Optiver
🇳🇱AmsterdamJuniorFull-timePosted June 3, 2026

About the Role

Join a small Options operations team focused on Operational Excellence across the trading desk. You'll own operational processes end-to-end, drive projects that improve and scale how the desk operates, and partner with traders, developers and Application Engineers to deliver bigger initiatives.

  • Own recurring operational processes end-to-end (corporate actions, expiries, early exercises, onboarding new underlyings)
  • Build and maintain validation, reconciliation and monitoring for positions, bookings and reference data
  • Deliver automation and tooling in Python that removes manual work and scales operational coverage
  • Apply AI and agentic workflows to operational problems
  • Drive larger improvement projects and participate in an on-call rota

Requirements

  • A graduate or professional with up to 2 years of working experience, preferably with a degree in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent (STEM)
  • Strong analytical mindset and problem decomposition skills
  • Solid Python skills
  • Curiosity about AI tooling and interest in applying LLMs or agentic workflows to operational problems
  • Good communication skills and comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders
  • Fluent in English
  • Interest in financial markets
  • Nice to have: Internship or prior exposure to trading operations or related fields
  • Nice to have: Experience thinking about automation and tooling at scale

What You'll Get

  • Performance-based bonus structure, enabling all employees to benefit from our global profit pool
  • The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries
  • Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
  • Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks
  • Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events