Trading Operations Specialist

We are looking for…our first dedicated Trade Operations Professional, dedicated to the Americas time zone and our clients there.

Job Description

• Trade settlement and communicating with internal and external trading counterparties to ensure timely and accurate settlements
• Trade reconciliation from post trade to settlement to ensure correct and timely settlement.
• Keeping track of the treasury, and liaising with the trading and finance teams on accounting for asset balances across operations.
• Liaising internally with the wider trading, OTC and options teams on balances and settlement status, and providing administrative support where needed.
• Asset rebalancing and whitelisting of crypto addresses across multiple CEXs and DEXs; across multiple platforms.
• Keeping track of and reporting technical and financial problems and providing support to the dev team for improvements and automating processes.
• Helping improve and contributing to the design of a more streamlined trade reporting and post-trade settlement procedures.

Background And Experience

• 2+ years of prior trading operations experience – with settlements and trading reconciliation at its core, and a strong preference if that included crypto assets.
• Experience working with banking across multiple currencies and managing different forms of money transfers/wires – with experience in managing clearing/settlement within cutoff times.
• In addition to crypto and FX, exposure to and an understanding of one or more key Trad-fi asset classes e.g., derivatives either from a trading or operational background.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field e.g., Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc.

Competences and personality

• Extremely strong attention to detail
• Self-organized and excellent communication
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• A passion for digital assets and blockchain technologies, and an understanding of asset transfers across CEXes and DEXes
• Understanding of financial market structure
• Adaptable and a strong team player, whilst working in a fast paced environment
• Fluent in English
• Strong Excel skills and ability to reconcile, track and present asset treasury and balances to internal and external counterparties.