Quantitative Analyst, Index Operations (Financial Markets)

Location: Hybrid role; selected candidate must be willing to work in the Chicago office, United States.

Salary: $98,175–$127,050 base salary per year, with potential incentive compensation and long-term equity participation.

Company

hirify.global provides financial infrastructure, market data, trading, clearing, and investment solutions for market participants worldwide.

What you will do

• Maintain and monitor real-time and end-of-day calculations and dissemination for U.S. derivatives and equity indices.
• Perform index rebalances, corporate action and dividend monitoring, daily reporting, validation, and control documentation.
• Run replication and calculation models, debug issues, and resolve incidents with internal departments, vendors, third parties, and clients.
• Support client onboarding, query handling, price challenges, and communications related to index rebalances.
• Collaborate on new index launches, enhancements, technical changes, and methodological change-management processes.
• Identify opportunities to automate and streamline index operations and maintain standard operating procedures and performance monitoring data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of experience in financial markets or a related field.
• Strong operational mindset, methodical problem-solving approach, and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Experience solving complex modeling problems, debugging, and applying mathematical index methodologies to practical situations.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, including client and stakeholder support.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with Microsoft Office.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Derivatives experience.
• Intermediate experience with R, Python, or another object-oriented programming language.
• Knowledge of theoretical options pricing and basic modeling.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, and mental health benefits.
• Paid vacation, personal, sick, and community service days.
• 401(k) match of up to 8% immediately upon hire.
• Employee stock purchase plan, tax savings accounts, and referral bonus program.
• Tuition assistance, education opportunities, parental leave, fertility benefits, and fitness support.
• Office meals, snacks, coffee, and volunteer opportunities.