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Operations Associate, Macro Operations (Follow-the-Sun Support)
Join Our Dynamic Macro Operations Team!
Are you a detail-oriented and driven Operations professional with a strong background in settlements, looking to make a significant impact within a global financial institution? Our Macro Operations team is seeking a talented Operations Associate to provide crucial "follow-the-sun" operational support to our Paris counterparties, specializing in Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD) and Foreign Exchange (FX).
In this pivotal role, you will be at the forefront of trade lifecycle management, responsible for the meticulous validation, confirmation, and in-depth settlement of trades. Your essential settlement experience will ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and robust risk control that are vital to our operations. You'll act as a key control point, expertly bridging the gap between Front Office, Middle Office, counterparties, and payment networks, ensuring seamless execution and mitigating risk.
What You'll Do:
- Provide Essential Follow-the-Sun Support: Deliver critical operational coverage for Paris Operations, ensuring continuity and excellence across time zones.
- Trade Validation & Accuracy: Perform daily trade validation for IRD and FX products, meticulously ensuring that trade economics are accurately captured and align perfectly with front office bookings.
- Discrepancy Resolution: Proactively investigate and efficiently resolve trade discrepancies, maintaining the integrity of our trade data.
- Confirmation Management: Manage and monitor both electronic and manual trade confirmations, ensuring timely matching and affirmation of trades through industry-leading platforms.
- Counterparty & Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a primary point of contact, liaising effectively with counterparties and internal stakeholders to promptly resolve unmatched or disputed trades.
- Settlement & Payment Processing: Crucially, you will process and control cash settlements and lifecycle payments associated with macro products, adhering to strict internal controls.
- SWIFT Payment Expertise: Prepare, validate, and release SWIFT payment instructions, ensuring compliance with all internal procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Settlement Monitoring & Escalation: Diligently monitor settlement timelines, proactively identifying and escalating any funding or payment issues. Your settlement expertise will be key in ensuring timely and accurate cash movements.
- FX Matching Oversight: Perform daily monitoring and exception management across FX matching platforms, ensuring trades are matched and affirmed within market timelines.
- Break Investigation: Support the investigation and resolution of breaks with counterparties and internal teams, contributing to a streamlined operational flow.
- Risk & Issue Management: Identify, escalate, and meticulously track operational risks and settlement issues, upholding our commitment to strong risk management.
- Adherence to Standards: Maintain strict adherence to internal procedures, regulatory requirements, and audit standards.
- Process Improvement: Actively contribute to identifying and implementing process improvements and control enhancements, driving efficiency and innovation.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work collaboratively with Front Office, Trade Support, Middle Office, IT, and other support functions to achieve shared goals.
- Professional Communication: Maintain professional, clear, and concise communication with external counterparties and custodians.
What You Bring:
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
- Experience: 2+ years of experience in a Back Office role specifically supporting Macro products.
- Mandatory Product Knowledge: Deep understanding of Interest Rate, FX, and Derivatives.
- Platform Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience with key FX Back Office platforms such as FXAll, CLS, and MarkitWire.
- Confirmation Systems: Knowledge of electronic confirmation platforms.
- SWIFT Expertise: Practical experience with SWIFT payment processing, including MT and MX messaging.
- Trade Lifecycle Systems: Familiarity with trade lifecycle systems and settlement workflows.
- Global Markets Operations: Experience in a back office or operations environment supporting global markets.
- Comprehensive Trade Lifecycle Understanding: A strong grasp of the entire trade lifecycle, from booking through confirmation, and crucially, settlement, including understanding the intricacies of cash movements and settlement finality.
- Performance Under Pressure: Proven ability to manage high volumes of work with exceptional accuracy, even under significant time pressure.
- Language Skills (Beneficial): Bilingual proficiency in French is a strong asset, though not a mandatory requirement.
- Exceptional Attention to Detail: A keen eye for detail and a robust control-oriented mindset.
- Prioritization Skills: Ability to effectively prioritize tasks in a time-sensitive, market-driven environment.
- Problem-Solving Acumen: Excellent problem-solving and investigation skills to tackle complex operational challenges.
- Professional Communication: Clear, professional, and effective written and verbal communication skills, both internally and externally.
- Teamwork & Adaptability: A true team player with the ability to collaborate effectively across different regions within a follow-the-sun model.
Why Join Us?
This is an exceptional opportunity to develop your career within a highly reputable financial institution, working on complex and critical operational processes. You'll be part of a collaborative and supportive team, gain exposure to a wide range of financial instruments, and contribute directly to the success of our global operations. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and ample opportunities for professional growth.
If you are a motivated and skilled operations professional with essential settlement experience seeking a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply!
Natixis is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a workplace free of discrimination. Natixis will not tolerate any form of discrimination based on age, color, mental or physical handicap or disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, alienage, ancestry or citizenship status, race, religion, sex (including sex stereotyping, gender identity, gender expression or transgender status), veteran status, creed, genetic information or carrier status, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.
Respect for all means that we deal with each person as an individual and not as a member of any group. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Management is expected to provide leadership in supporting the firms EEO program by taking steps to promote EEO in all facets of employment including recruitment, hiring, retention, promotion, performance assessment, and career-development opportunities.
The salary range for this Associate position will be between $105,000 - $125,000. Natixis is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Actual base salary will vary and will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, skills set, applicable licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Base salary is only one component of our total rewards package. Natixis also offers a generous benefits package, and you may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award depending on company and individual performance.
Job Description
Operations Associate, Macro Operations (Follow-the-Sun Support)
Join Our Dynamic Macro Operations Team!
Are you a detail-oriented and driven Operations professional with a strong background in settlements, looking to make a significant impact within a global financial institution? Our Macro Operations team is seeking a talented Operations Associate to provide crucial "follow-the-sun" operational support to our Paris counterparties, specializing in Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD) and Foreign Exchange (FX).
In this pivotal role, you will be at the forefront of trade lifecycle management, responsible for the meticulous validation, confirmation, and in-depth settlement of trades. Your essential settlement experience will ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and robust risk control that are vital to our operations. You'll act as a key control point, expertly bridging the gap between Front Office, Middle Office, counterparties, and payment networks, ensuring seamless execution and mitigating risk.
What You'll Do:
- Provide Essential Follow-the-Sun Support: Deliver critical operational coverage for Paris Operations, ensuring continuity and excellence across time zones.
- Trade Validation & Accuracy: Perform daily trade validation for IRD and FX products, meticulously ensuring that trade economics are accurately captured and align perfectly with front office bookings.
- Discrepancy Resolution: Proactively investigate and efficiently resolve trade discrepancies, maintaining the integrity of our trade data.
- Confirmation Management: Manage and monitor both electronic and manual trade confirmations, ensuring timely matching and affirmation of trades through industry-leading platforms.
- Counterparty & Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a primary point of contact, liaising effectively with counterparties and internal stakeholders to promptly resolve unmatched or disputed trades.
- Settlement & Payment Processing: Crucially, you will process and control cash settlements and lifecycle payments associated with macro products, adhering to strict internal controls.
- SWIFT Payment Expertise: Prepare, validate, and release SWIFT payment instructions, ensuring compliance with all internal procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Settlement Monitoring & Escalation: Diligently monitor settlement timelines, proactively identifying and escalating any funding or payment issues. Your settlement expertise will be key in ensuring timely and accurate cash movements.
- FX Matching Oversight: Perform daily monitoring and exception management across FX matching platforms, ensuring trades are matched and affirmed within market timelines.
- Break Investigation: Support the investigation and resolution of breaks with counterparties and internal teams, contributing to a streamlined operational flow.
- Risk & Issue Management: Identify, escalate, and meticulously track operational risks and settlement issues, upholding our commitment to strong risk management.
- Adherence to Standards: Maintain strict adherence to internal procedures, regulatory requirements, and audit standards.
- Process Improvement: Actively contribute to identifying and implementing process improvements and control enhancements, driving efficiency and innovation.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work collaboratively with Front Office, Trade Support, Middle Office, IT, and other support functions to achieve shared goals.
- Professional Communication: Maintain professional, clear, and concise communication with external counterparties and custodians.
What You Bring:
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
- Experience: 2+ years of experience in a Back Office role specifically supporting Macro products.
- Mandatory Product Knowledge: Deep understanding of Interest Rate, FX, and Derivatives.
- Platform Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience with key FX Back Office platforms such as FXAll, CLS, and MarkitWire.
- Confirmation Systems: Knowledge of electronic confirmation platforms.
- SWIFT Expertise: Practical experience with SWIFT payment processing, including MT and MX messaging.
- Trade Lifecycle Systems: Familiarity with trade lifecycle systems and settlement workflows.
- Global Markets Operations: Experience in a back office or operations environment supporting global markets.
- Comprehensive Trade Lifecycle Understanding: A strong grasp of the entire trade lifecycle, from booking through confirmation, and crucially, settlement, including understanding the intricacies of cash movements and settlement finality.
- Performance Under Pressure: Proven ability to manage high volumes of work with exceptional accuracy, even under significant time pressure.
- Language Skills (Beneficial): Bilingual proficiency in French is a strong asset, though not a mandatory requirement.
- Exceptional Attention to Detail: A keen eye for detail and a robust control-oriented mindset.
- Prioritization Skills: Ability to effectively prioritize tasks in a time-sensitive, market-driven environment.
- Problem-Solving Acumen: Excellent problem-solving and investigation skills to tackle complex operational challenges.
- Professional Communication: Clear, professional, and effective written and verbal communication skills, both internally and externally.
- Teamwork & Adaptability: A true team player with the ability to collaborate effectively across different regions within a follow-the-sun model.
Why Join Us?
This is an exceptional opportunity to develop your career within a highly reputable financial institution, working on complex and critical operational processes. You'll be part of a collaborative and supportive team, gain exposure to a wide range of financial instruments, and contribute directly to the success of our global operations. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and ample opportunities for professional growth.
If you are a motivated and skilled operations professional with essential settlement experience seeking a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply!
Natixis is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a workplace free of discrimination. Natixis will not tolerate any form of discrimination based on age, color, mental or physical handicap or disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, alienage, ancestry or citizenship status, race, religion, sex (including sex stereotyping, gender identity, gender expression or transgender status), veteran status, creed, genetic information or carrier status, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.
Respect for all means that we deal with each person as an individual and not as a member of any group. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Management is expected to provide leadership in supporting the firms EEO program by taking steps to promote EEO in all facets of employment including recruitment, hiring, retention, promotion, performance assessment, and career-development opportunities.
The salary range for this Associate position will be between $105,000 - $125,000. Natixis is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Actual base salary will vary and will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, skills set, applicable licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Base salary is only one component of our total rewards package. Natixis also offers a generous benefits package, and you may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award depending on company and individual performance.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as an Operations Specialist
Target companies with established OPT workflows
Large logistics firms, consulting agencies, and healthcare systems hire Operations Specialists regularly and often have HR teams familiar with OPT paperwork. Smaller companies may be open but require more education on your work authorization timeline.
Clarify your STEM OPT eligibility upfront
If your degree is in industrial engineering, information systems, or supply chain management, you likely qualify for 24-month STEM OPT extension. Confirm your CIP code with your DSO before interviews so you can communicate eligibility accurately to employers.
Frame OPT as low-risk sponsorship for employers
OPT requires no employer petition or USCIS filing fees. Employers simply verify your EAD card. Leading with this in recruiter conversations removes the most common objection before it becomes a reason to pass on your application.
Emphasize process improvement credentials
Lean Six Sigma certification, ERP system experience, or data analytics skills make your profile significantly stronger for operations roles. Employers hiring at the OPT stage often value demonstrated efficiency outcomes over raw tenure in the field.
Apply before your OPT start date when possible
You can begin interviewing and receive offers before your OPT authorization begins. Starting your job search 60 to 90 days before your EAD start date gives employers time to run their hiring process without feeling rushed by your authorization window.
Understand your 90-day unemployment limit
OPT students cannot accumulate more than 90 days of unemployment during the standard OPT period. Starting your search early and tracking any gaps between roles protects your F-1 status and keeps your options open for STEM extension.
Operations Specialist OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Operations Specialist jobs qualify for STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not the job title. If your undergraduate or graduate degree is in a STEM-designated field such as industrial engineering, operations research, information systems, or supply chain management, you can apply for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your DSO can confirm whether your CIP code qualifies before you commit to a role.
How do I find Operations Specialist jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for F-1 OPT students, so you're not sifting through postings from employers unwilling to work with international candidates. Searching there surfaces Operations Specialist roles from companies that have already indicated openness to OPT work authorization, which saves significant time early in your search.
What documents do I need to show an employer as an OPT student?
You'll present your Employment Authorization Document, your F-1 visa, your passport, and your I-20 with an OPT recommendation from your DSO. For I-9 verification, your EAD alone satisfies both identity and work authorization. Keep digital copies accessible since recruiters sometimes ask for confirmation before extending an offer.
Can I switch from one Operations Specialist role to another while on OPT?
Yes, but the new role must remain within the same field of study that your OPT authorization covers. You must also report the job change to your DSO within 10 days in the SEVP portal. If you're on STEM OPT extension, additionally notify your DSO and ensure the new employer submits a Form I-983 training plan.
What happens to my OPT if an operations contract role ends early?
The 90-day unemployment clock resumes. If you've already used some of your unemployment days, the remaining days continue counting down. You should notify your DSO immediately and begin a new search. Contract and project-based operations work carries real timeline risk for OPT students, so understanding your remaining days before accepting short-term positions matters.