[Hiring] CFD & Futures Researcher @Prop Firm Match Global – FZCO

Role Description

At Prop Firm Match, the CFD & Futures Researcher is responsible for maintaining high-quality research coverage across proprietary trading firms, with primary focus on futures prop firms and secondary coverage of CFD firms. You will maintain accurate, structured, and reliable firm data, while producing clear market insights and research outputs that support platform decisions, content initiatives, and trader education.

Success in this role means that futures prop firms are deeply understood and continuously updated, while CFD coverage remains reliable and structured. The researcher contributes to the platform’s credibility by ensuring that research outputs are accurate, structured, and decision-grade, especially in the futures prop trading ecosystem.

Performance Objectives

• Ensure accuracy of firm data and platform content
  • Maintain high standards of accuracy across proprietary trading firm data and platform research, with priority on futures firms and programs.
  • Key outcomes:
    • Maintain accurate and up-to-date data across internal research databases and the PFM platform.
    • Prioritize validation and monitoring of futures prop firms and trading programs.
    • Identify outdated, inconsistent, or missing information and correct it proactively.
    • Track changes across both futures and CFD firms, ensuring faster updates for futures firms.
    • Conduct regular audits of firm pages and research trackers.
    • Maintain structured documentation of research updates and firm changes.
  • Success looks like: Firm data across the platform remains high-confidence and consistently updated, with futures firm coverage deeply validated and decision-grade, while CFD firm information remains structured and reliable.
• Deliver structured research across CFD and futures prop firms
  • Conduct structured research across the proprietary trading ecosystem, with primary ownership of futures firms and supporting coverage of CFD firms.
  • Key outcomes:
    • Maintain detailed research profiles of futures prop firms.
    • Maintain working coverage of CFD firms to platform standards.
    • Track industry developments, firm updates, and new market entrants.
    • Deliver structured research summaries and firm analyses.
    • Maintain organized research documentation across firms and markets.
  • Success looks like: The research database remains structured, consistent, and continuously updated, with futures firm coverage demonstrating deeper analytical understanding, while CFD research remains reliable and complete.
• Produce clear market insights and research-based content
  • Translate research findings into structured insights that improve trader understanding and support PFM content initiatives.
  • Key outcomes:
    • Monitor developments across futures markets (indices, commodities, rates) and relevant CFD markets.
    • Produce research briefs on futures trading conditions, firm structures, and platform models.
    • Contribute research-backed insights for platform content and market analysis.
    • Translate complex futures concepts (contracts, margin structures, drawdowns) into clear explanations.
    • Support internal decision-making with structured research insights.
  • Success looks like: PFM produces clear, credible insights about futures prop firms and market structures, strengthening the platform’s authority in the futures prop trading ecosystem.
• Collaborate across teams to improve research and content quality
  • Work with content, product, and marketing teams to ensure research outputs support platform strategy and initiatives.
  • Key outcomes:
    • Align research updates with platform needs and content initiatives.
    • Participate in internal discussions to share relevant research findings.
    • Identify workflow gaps and propose improvements to research processes.
    • Maintain structured research workflows and documentation practices.
  • Success looks like: Research becomes a reliable internal decision layer, enabling content, product, and growth teams to work with accurate and actionable insights, particularly for futures-related initiatives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in research, market analysis, financial analysis, or a related role requiring strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Solid understanding of financial markets, particularly futures instruments, with familiarity in CFD markets.
• Familiarity with the proprietary trading industry and how prop firms operate, including challenge models and trading conditions.
• Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to organize and interpret complex financial information.
• Excellent written communication skills to translate technical market information into clear insights.
• Experience working with research tools, spreadsheets, or data management platforms.
• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams in a remote environment.
• Fluent English proficiency (written and spoken) with strong clarity and accuracy.
• Self-driven and detail-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership over research quality and accuracy.

Hiring Process

• Application screening: We carefully review all applications to identify candidates whose research experience, analytical thinking, and familiarity with financial markets best match the role’s performance objectives.
• Video Self-Introduction: A short asynchronous video where you introduce yourself, share your background, and briefly explain your experience with financial markets, research, or the prop trading industry.
• Discovery Interview with HR Team: Shortlisted candidates will join a conversation focused on your professional background, research experience, and alignment with Prop Firm Match Global FZCO’s culture and values.
• Research Task: You’ll complete a short, role-relevant research task based on real Prop Firm Match scenarios.
• Interview with Hiring Manager: A conversation focused on your research methodology, futures market expertise, and ability to analyze proprietary trading firms.
• Offer Stage: If there’s a strong mutual fit, we move into an informal alignment discussion followed by a formal written offer.

Benefits

• Contribute to a growing platform shaping the future of proprietary trading.
• Work within a flat, collaborative team where your input is valued.
• Work remotely with the flexibility you need to maintain balance and focus.
• A professional, transparent, and healthy work environment that values both results and people.