Automation Analyst (Python)

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting-edge technology to offer liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide. Our Automation team is looking to hire an Analyst to help spearhead efforts that will greatly improve upon our ever-increasing workflows and systems. The ideal candidate will be an automation enthusiast and passionate about problem solving through programming. As part of this role, you'll be immersed in the firm's trading operations systems, working alongside operations analysts, traders and developers to architect solutions that are intuitive, maintainable and most importantly, simplified. Key responsibilities will be to apply your technical expertise to develop tools that simplify daily operational trading tasks, automate data review and reconciliation, and architect new systems and controls that enhance the robustness of the firm’s post trade processes. No finance experience is necessary; we're looking for a self-starter who is a technologist at heart, interested in learning the mechanics o [... source excerpt omitted ...] rate closely with trading operations team to identify creative solutions that rely on automation of their tasks Manage the balance of work between longer term goals and immediate production workflows; to ensure progress is made on important initiatives and that the team is supported THE CANDIDATE Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field Strong working knowledge of Python; experience with Pandas a strong plus Strong working knowledge of SQL 2+ years of working experience preferred but talented graduates will be considered Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to collaborate with others The ability to translate complex problems into prac