Middle Office & Operations Analyst

Melody Global is an emerging, fundamentals-driven hedge fund with a flexible mandate across geographies. We focus on generating consistent, risk-adjusted returns through dynamic capital allocation and disciplined risk management.

We are seeking a Middle Office & Operations Analyst to work directly with the COO. This role owns the operational backbone of the fund — from trade reconciliation and NAV validation to process automation and systems infrastructure. It is ideal for someone who wants to understand how a hedge fund is built and run, and who finds deep satisfaction in making complex systems work reliably at scale.

• Reconcile trades, positions, and cash across internal systems, prime brokers, and fund administrator daily
• Investigate and resolve breaks (trade, cash, and position discrepancies) with full ownership to close-out
• Assist with daily NAV and P&L validation
• Support onboarding of new accounts, brokers, and counter parties
• Track corporate actions, dividends, and position lifecycle events from an operational lens

• Identify and eliminate manual, error-prone workflows through Python automation
• Build and maintain lightweight tools in Python and Excel/VBA to streamline operational processes
• Document procedures for scalability, auditability, and compliance
• Help implement and refine OMS/PMS systems from an operations and data-integrity perspective
• Own the data quality layer — ensuring positions, cash, and P&L are accurate across all systems

• Prepare internal operational reports and assist with investor-facing reporting
• Maintain and improve operational controls and exception-handling workflows
• Support ad hoc analysis on operational metrics, breaks history, and process performance
• Assist in building dashboards that surface operational health to the COO and CIO
• Monitor portfolio-level data for consistency — gross/net, sector, and liquidity exposures as reported
• Flag data anomalies, stale prices, or system discrepancies before they affect reporting
• Support the investment team with clean, reliable data for risk and performance analysis

You will own the unglamorous but critical details that keep a fund running. The right candidate will:

• Treat a break or data discrepancy as a puzzle worth solving completely, not just closing
• Build systems and processes that make the whole firm more reliable and scalable
• Understand the business context behind every reconciliation and control
• Take pride in operational precision and zero-defect execution

• 0–3 years of experience in fund operations, middle office, prime brokerage, or related field
• Strong Python skills; comfortable writing scripts to automate reconciliation and data workflows
• High proficiency in Excel, including VBA for process automation
• Understanding of financial instruments: equities, derivatives, fixed income basics
• Strong attention to detail — you catch what others miss
• Genuine curiosity about how hedge funds are built and operated
• Strong communication skills for working with external counter parties (prime brokers, fund admin)

• Experience with OMS/PMS platforms (e.g., Eze, Enfusion, Advent)
• Prior exposure to hedge fund middle office or fund administration workflows
• Experience reconciling data across multiple custodians or systems
• Familiarity with NAV calculation, shadow accounting, or fund admin processes
• Basic understanding of portfolio risk concepts and how they surface in operational data

• Competitive base salary ($65k - $80k), based on experience with performance-based bonus
• Direct mentorship from the COO with full visibility into fund operations and firm-building
• Significant growth opportunity — early stage fund, high-impact team