Market Data Analyst Operations Chicago

CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.

We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.

We'relooking for a Market Data Analyst who can bridge the worlds of trading, technology, and finance.

You'llbe an integral link between our traders, developers, and financial teams, ensuring we have the right market data to power our trading strategies while managing costs effectively.

As our Market Data Analyst,you'lloversee CTC's comprehensive market data services sourced from vendors and exchanges.

Your responsibilities span procurement and inventory management to budgeting and vendor relations.

You'll collaborate with exchanges and internal teams across Technology, Trading, Legal, Accounting, and Procurement tooptimizeour data infrastructure and ensure compliance with exchange reporting requirements.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with a solid understanding of financial markets and technology systems, plus the communication skills to work effectively across diverse teams.

• Manage market data inventory, entitlements, and connectivity within CTC’s market data management system (FITS)
• Maintain vendor contracts, services, and recurring expense records, including contract entry and inventory management
• Partner with Accounting to reconcile market data expenses and accruals with the general ledger, investigate discrepancies, and coordinate resolutions with exchanges and vendors
• Prepare andsubmitmonthly usage reporting to exchanges and third?party vendors to ensure licensing compliance
• Provision market data access for employees, including ordering terminals, IDs, and licenses and coordinating delivery with vendors
• Support market data vendor management and procurement activities such as contract renewals, pricing reviews, budgeting, and forecasting
• Research vendor products and exchange changes and help improve internal Vendor Operations processes and workflows

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, MIS, or a related field
• 1-3years of experience in market data, vendor operations, exchange connectivity, or a related role within a financial services or trading environment
• Interest in financial markets and technology
• Experience with market data inventory/entitlement systems or similar platformspreferred
• Strong analytical skills andadvancedproficiencyin Excel (e.g., formulas, v-lookups, pivot tables)
• Strong communication, organization, and problem?solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
• Highly detail?oriented with a proactive approach toidentifyinginconsistencies and improving data accuracy

The salary range for this role is listed below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.

Salary Range

$90,000 — $120,000 USD

Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.

(Disclaimer: interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)

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