Trade Operations Analyst

Job Description Our client, a global hedge fund based in Norwalk, CT, is seeking a Commodities Operations Analyst to join their Investment Operations team. This individual will play a key role in supporting the post-trade lifecycle for Oil, Electricity/Power, and Natural Gas products, including futures, options, and commodity swaps. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting commodities trading operations within a hedge fund, investment manager, commodity trading firm, or similar financial services environment. \n \n Responsibilities include: \n \n Perform daily trade, position, cash, and P&L reconciliations across Oil, Electricity/Power, and Natural Gas products. \n Support the post-trade lifecycle for commodity futures, options, and swaps, ensuring accurate trade capture, booking, confirmation, settlement, and reconciliation. \n Investigate and resolve trade breaks, position discrepancies, cash differences, valuation issues, and other operational exceptions. \n Monitor commodity trade lifecycle events, including expirations, option exercises/assignments, futures rolls, swap resets, settlements, cash flows, and contract terminations. \n Reconcile commodity positions and trade economics against brokers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), clearinghouses, and OTC counterparties. \n Support daily processing and reconciliation of exchange-traded and OTC commodity derivatives. \n Work closely with Commodities Trading, Middle Office, Risk, Treasury, Finance, Technology, brokers, and counterparties to resolve operational issues and ensure seamless trade processing. \n Maintain accurate trade, position, contract, counterparty, and reference data to support operational and financial reporting. \n \n \n Requirements: \n \n 2 years of commodities operations, derivatives operations, investment operations, or middle-office experience within a hedge fund, investment manager, commodity trading firm, bank, or similar environment. \n Hands-on experience supporting Oil, Electricity/Power, and/or Natural Gas products. \n Experience supporting commodity futures, options, and swaps and their associated post-trade lifecycle. \n Strong understanding of commodity derivatives operations, including trade capture, confirmations, futures rolls, expirations, option exercises/assignments, swap resets, cash flows, and settlements. \n Experience reconciling commodity trades and positions and resolving trade, cash, position, and valuation breaks with brokers and counterparties. \n Experience with Advent Geneva, or a similar investment management, accounting, or trade-processing platform. \n Strong attention to detail and ability to manage high-volume, time-sensitive operational workflows. \n