Product Controller Analyst - Middle Office

As a Middle Office Analyst at IMC, you will serve as a trusted control partner to the trading desks, ensuring the seamless flow of derivatives trades through the firm's operational and risk infrastructure. With 5 years of similar experience, you're expected to operate with a high degree of independence and insight, proactively identifying risks, optimizing processes, and contributing to strategic initiatives that support IMC’s high-frequency, global trading operations.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

Trade Lifecycle Oversight

• Validate and monitor high-volume, complex derivatives trades (e.g., options, futures) across global markets
• Ensure trade capture accuracy and resolve breaks between front office, clearing, and back office systems

P&L and Reporting

• Own the daily P&L validation process, explaining key drivers and discrepancies to traders and finance
• Support accurate P&L reporting to various stakeholders

Control and Governance

• Act as a critical control point for trade amendments, corporate actions, and expiries
• Monitor P&L / balance sheet controls, compliance flags, and support audit readiness

Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify inefficiencies and champion automation efforts using tools such as Python, SQL, and internal data platforms
• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to refine reconciliation, reporting, and alerting workflows

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Interface daily with traders, quants, risk managers, compliance, and technology teams
• Support strategic initiatives like new product onboarding, exchange migrations, or infrastructure upgrades

Your Skills and Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics or Accounting are preferred
• 5 years similar experience in banks, hedge funds, trading firms
• Product knowledge in listed and OTC derivatives
• Proficiency in tools like Python, SQL, Excel (VBA), and internal monitoring systems
• Strong understanding of clearing workflows and attention to detail
• Calm, structured approach in fast-paced environments

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.