Graduate Trading Operations Specialist

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TRADING OPERATIONS AT IMC:

IMC is currently looking for a talented and passionate Trading Operations Specialist to play a critical role in maintaining and perfecting our trading systems. As a Trading Operations Specialist, you will be part of highly motivated team, facing the daily challenge of managing a high-volume data flow in a complex environment distributed over a low latency infrastructure. In this role you will be exposed to many technical and trading challenges while ensuring high availability, stability and performance of the end-to-end environment.

This role provides frequent challenges, as no day is the same as the next. The person in this role will have the opportunity to make a considerable impact as part of a dedicated, dynamic global team.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Monitor, manage and update pricing tools
• Act as point of contact between traders and internal support desks
• Liaison to external issuers, vendors and data providers
• Work and support the market making trade book
• Verify backend processes (trade reporting, pnl recording)

Your Skills and Experience:

• Recent university graduate or current university student graduating before August 2026 with a degree in a quantitative field of study (e.g. Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Econometrics, or related field)
• Strong quantitative skill set
• Superb eye for detail
• Ability to develop and improve existing tools to affect significant results within the company
• Ability to multi task, organize, and communicate effectively
• Experience in a programming language (e.g. Python, Matlab or R) is an advantage but not required
• Genuine interest in financial markets, though no prior knowledge or experience is required
• A team player – at IMC we’re all in it together
• Must be available to start full time employment in August 2026

You may submit one application per role each year.  We strongly encourage you to focus on applying to a single role that best matches your skills and interests. Though you may apply to multiple roles, please note that each application will be evaluated based on the specific criteria established for that particular role. If you have already applied for this position during the current recruitment season and were not selected, you may reapply when the next recruitment season begins in 2026.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Base Salary: $200,000

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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.