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FP&A Tech Manager

Chicago

Optiver is looking for candidates that are enthusiastic and that have an entrepreneurship type attitude to help expand this reporting function. This role will have a great opportunity to work with a fast-paced technology group and detailed finance group plus various other departments/stakeholders. 

Who we are:
Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

What you’ll do:

  • In this role, you will perform critical financial modeling used to inform executive decision–making around capital spending, operating budgets, and long-term planning for Technology Organization.
  • Provide analysis and insights to senior stakeholders in order to facilitate investment decisions.
  • Support the annual budget and re-forecasts by facilitating cross-functional collaboration to ensure firm achieves its financial goals.
  • Work with various technology stakeholders on documenting business plans.
  • Effectively capture results, analyze against budget, providing meaningful variance commentary and deep dive insight.
  • Drive design improvement for more effective, efficient, and transparent FP&A processes.
  • Proactively develop new value-add KPIs and management reporting to support our dynamic business expansion.
  • Support regional and holding level finance team’s management reporting by providing passthrough/component reporting.
  • Work closely with Group Reporting & Controlling team on shaping and building global technology management reporting deliverables
  • Prepare regular global technology management reporting slide deck and present key results and supplemental information to stakeholders and management
  • Partner with Global Finance and Tax Teams to enhance and document methodology for allocation of global technology expenses
  • Acts as a key resource for business leadership, maintain and building new financial modeling, prepare other ad hoc deliverables. 

Who you are:

  • 7+ years of experience
  • Relevant experience in finance, management consulting or accounting
  • Strong focus or background on technology
  • Enthusiasm for complex problem solving utilizing financial modeling and analysis
  • A hands-on mentality and an eye for detail while also being able to take a step back, look at the big picture
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience working with data visualization tools
  • Business acumen and knowledge of functional elements, which are important for business profitability in order to influence, drive and positively impact business results.
  • The ability to collaborate across management levels and departments, with experience in interacting/presenting to leadership across a variety of teams and locations

What you’ll get:

  • Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
  • Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
  • Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.  
  • Alongside this you will get great other benefits such as 25 paid vacation days and market holidays, fully paid health insurance, daily breakfast and lunch, training opportunities, 401(k) match up to 50% and charitable match opportunities, regular social events and clubs, and many more.

At Optiver, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. Optiver recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics. 

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