Automation Analyst

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Austin, TX
Junior
Fintech
The Role
The Automation Developer will enhance workflows and systems within the firm’s back-office by developing tools to automate data review, improve operational tasks, and architect robust systems. Collaboration with operations and finance teams is essential to ensure intuitive and maintainable solutions are delivered.
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Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to offer liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide.

Our Automation team is looking to hire an analyst to help improve workflows and systems through our back-office. The ideal candidate will be passionate about exploring business requirements and problem solving through programming. 

As part of this role, you'll be immersed in the firm's back-office systems, working alongside the firm’s operations and finance teams to implement solutions that are intuitive and maintainable. Key responsibilities will be to apply your technical expertise to develop tools that simplify daily operational trading tasks, automate data review and reconciliation, and architect new systems and controls that enhance the robustness of the firm’s post trade processes.  

No finance experience is necessary; we're looking for a self-starter who is a technologist at heart, interested in learning the mechanics of trading, and has a genuine drive toward efficiency. 


THE ROLE

  • Build, maintain and refine workflows involving multiple databases and system API's  
  • Serve as point of contact for triaging and debugging
  • Act as process owner and document use cases
  • Collaborate with operations and finance teams to improve business workflows


THE CANDIDATE

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Strong working knowledge of Python
  • Strong knowledge of SQL
  • 2+ years of working experience preferred but talented graduates will be considered
  • Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to collaborate with others
  • The ability to translate complex problems into practical working solutions
  • Outstanding quantitative problem‐solving skills
  • A "physicalizer"; a person who identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction or fanfare


THE PROCESS

After passing an application screening, candidates will be sent an online programming test via email from a service called HackerRank as a first step of the process. This is to gain an understanding of the candidates coding ability. We look forward to meeting you!

Virtu Financial is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming you for who you are and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.


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The Company
Westlake Hills, TX
150 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Virtu is a leader in electronic market making. We actively make markets across a broad range of asset classes, providing two-sided liquidity in 35 countries around the world. As market makers, we lower costs for investors and Virtu's liquidity provision plays a vital role in the overall health and efficiency of the global financial markets.

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