Who we are:
We at Swissblock are a private investment firm on a mission to lead the way in cross-asset investing. With a keen understanding that timing is paramount, we employ a systematic approach that combines robust algorithmic trading with exhaustive cross-asset market analysis.
We are seeking an operations professional to bring passion and structure to build the foundations of a new company branch.
We are partnering with the best solution providers to make the execution and post-trading workflow as transparent and efficient as possible. The overarching goal is to simplify communication and allow our key resources to focus together on problem-solving whilst considering automation.
What you’ll be doing:
As an Operations Associate, you will be responsible for:
- Building and maintaining automated operations workflows, including trade flow monitoring, reconciliations, exception management, and intraday position integrity checks.
- Developing tools and scripts to streamline repetitive processes across trade capture, reconciliation, margin monitoring, and corporate actions lifecycle.
- Testing new system features, coordinating UAT, documenting workflows, and ensuring smooth production releases with minimal operational risk.
- Collaborating with PMs, traders, and tech teams implement scalable pipelines, automate reconciliations, and strengthen controls as trading volumes and instruments expand.
- Supporting BAU operational duties include trade capture, reconciliation, resolution of position and trade-related queries, ad-hoc reporting, settlement, compressions, collapses, and corporate actions.
What you’ll bring:
- Strong working knowledge of financial markets technology platforms.
- Ability to translate operational processes into technical specifications.
- Experience building custom reports, dashboards, alerting logic for reconciliation, break investigation, risk monitoring, or regulatory reporting.
- Proven hands-on experience of at least five years in an operations team with significant flow that includes automated trading.
- Personal hands-on experience of at least three years in the following operations procedures for IRS:
- Handling trade capture (i.e., bookings) and booking amendments in a well-known OMS.
- Performing trade settlement, as well as position and PnL reconciliations.
- Conducting standard line-item management for IRS, such as unwinds, collapses and compressions.
- A good understanding of IRS, including associated operations workflows.
- Strong, clear, and concise verbal and written communication skills in English.
Preferred experience:
- A good understanding of CFD, futures, CDS and TRS, including associated operations workflows.
- Experience in collateral management (margin and cash).
- Experience with corporate actions in cash equities.
- Proficiency in German.
- Hands on experience with SQL, Python, or similar tools to automate workflows, analyze large datasets, and build operational tools.
- Understanding of APIs, FIX, and file based integrations used in daily trade lifecycle workflows.
Why you should apply:
At Swissblock, we offer an exciting and diverse environment with flat hierarchies and excellent peers. We are a profitable company with a culture based on responsibility and merit. Empowerment is a key value reflected in our career dynamics, which continuously grow with the business.
In addition to a modern office in Baar, Switzerland, with the flexibility to work from your home office twice a week, we propose a competitive compensation package, an annual bonus, 25 days of annual leave, progressive social benefits, and engaging company events.