Operations Consultant II

Title: Operations Consultant II

Office Status: Hybrid (3 days in-office)

Pay Rate: Up to $60/hour

Contract Length: Not specified

ABOUT THE ROLE

A financial services organization is seeking an experienced trade validation professional with deep expertise in equity derivatives and structured equity products. This role will perform end-to-end trade controls, validate complex booking economics, investigate discrepancies, and partner closely with Front Office, Structuring, Risk, Operations, Finance, and Technology to ensure accurate trade capture and downstream processing.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform end-to-end trade validation and control for equity derivatives and structured equity products.
• Validate trade economics against term sheets, confirmations, trader recaps, and booking models.
• Review complex product attributes, including payoffs, barriers, autocalls, digitals, knock-in/knock-out features, coupons, and underlying baskets or indices.
• Investigate trade capture discrepancies, booking issues, and exceptions and drive them through resolution.
• Partner with Trading, Sales, Structuring, Operations, Risk, and Technology teams to resolve trade-related issues.
• Monitor lifecycle events including amendments, cancellations, novations, resets, corporate actions, fixing events, and maturities.
• Perform daily controls and reconciliations to identify missing, unmatched, or incorrectly booked trades.
• Assess the impact of trade capture accuracy on valuation, risk, and downstream operational processes.
• Manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced trading environment.