Hiring: Senior Pricing Analyst, Derivatives Pricing, Incentives and Analytics Company: CME Group Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 12:56:02 Target Skills & Keywords : Derivatives, Python, SQL About the job Experience: •5 years of work experience in pricing, financial analysis, derivatives, trading, or competitive market analysis. Required Skills: •Partner with business leaders across derivatives markets and services to support the pricing, development, design, performance tracking, and management of growth incentives and market-making programs. •Design and execute detailed analysis of market and client activity to diagnose specific market issues, evaluate liquidity, and identify potential incentive programs to address business opportunities. •Actively facilitate and support rollout and administration of incentive and market-making programs reflecting broad industry shifts, product strategies, and evolving customer needs. •Measure and track key metrics to assess program performance, motivate participant behavior, and evaluate resulting impacts on overall market health. •Execute with extreme attention to detail to ensure high accuracy across complex pricing models, operational program setups, and performance tracking dashboards. •Demonstrate strong initiative-taking by proactively identifying data anomalies, proposing pricing process improvements, and unearthing prospective growth opportunities without waiting for explicit direction. •Coordinate the operational approval, setup, and performance management reporting for multiple derivatives markets, collaborating with stakeholders across Financials, Commodities, Technology, Clearing, Legal, Market Regulation, and Finance. •Build and maintain analytical tools to evaluate enterprise revenue and market health, synthesizing results into actionable recommendations for business leaders. Qualifications: •B.A., B.S., or higher, preferably in Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, or a related quantitative field. •3–5 years of work experience in pricing, financial analysis, derivatives, trading, or competitive market analysis. •Demonstrated success in high attention to detail when analyzing complex datasets and building pricing models, combined with a strong history of initiative-taking in problem-solving. •Advanced quantitative and analytical skills. Experience manipulating large datasets using statistical tools (e.g., Python, R) and database queries (SQL) is highly desirable. •Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarize complex pricing and market analysis clearly for internal stakeholders. •Excellent interpersonal skills to manage cross-functional relationships across finance, technology, clearing, and legal teams. •CME Group: Where Futures are Made •Recruitment fraud is on the rise, with scammers using misleading promises of job offers and interviews to solicit money and personal information from job seekers. CME Group adheres to established procedures designed to maintain trust, confidence and security throughout our recruitment process. Learn more here. Compensation: •$85,100 - $141,800 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!