Commodities Operations Associate

Job Description:

Job Title: Commodities Operations Associate

Location: New York

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee daily trade, position, and cash reconciliations across multiple commodities
• Monitoring and communicating with front office on physically settled exchanged listed contracts. Making sure front office have rolled or traded out before expiry/first notice
• Work closely with multiple internal teams utilizing your product knowledge to help test & build out processes for new product approvals within Commodities.
• Investigate and resolve trade, settlement, and cash breaks with internal teams and external counterparties
• Support the full trade lifecycle, including trade capture, allocation, settlement, and exception management
• Partner closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Finance, Operations, Prime Brokers, custodians, and fund administrators
• Assist with portfolio and NAV reconciliations and support daily operational controls
• Identify process improvement opportunities and help automate manual operational workflows
• Support new account onboarding, product launches, and operational projects across the trading platform
• Ensure operational risks are identified, escalated, and resolved in a timely manner
• Working closely with multiple teams to efficiently work through new product requests, understanding where operational risks may lie and building processes to mitigate the risks.

Required Experience

• 10-15 years of experience in trading operations, middle office, or investment operations within an asset manager, hedge fund, or physical trading companies
• Strong trade reconciliation and break resolution experience
• Experience supporting multiple commodity products. SME in US Gas & Power is preferred (Exchange Listed or Physical)
• Solid understanding of the trade lifecycle, settlement processes, and operational controls
• Experience working with Prime Brokers, custodians, fund administrators, or outsourced middle office providers
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience with ION Triplepoint is advantageous but not essential
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative trading environment

Ideal Candidate

• Proactive, detail-oriented, and highly organized
• Strong communicator with the ability to work across Trading, Finance, and Operations
• Comfortable taking ownership of issues through to resolution
• Process-driven with a continuous improvement mindset
• Thrives in a dynamic, high-performance investment environment

Compensation

Jain Global offers a total compensation package which includes a base salary, discretionary bonus, and comprehensive benefits. The estimated base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $170,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future. When finalizing an offer, we take into consideration an individual’s experience level and the qualifications they bring to the role to formulate a competitive total compensation package.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

As an employer, we believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of Jain Global teams to drive competitive performance. We believe an inclusive environment can yield exceptional contributions.