Trading Operations Specialist - Digital Assets

Summary

Join Keyrock's Americas-based trading operations team as a dedicated Trading Operations Specialist. You will manage digital asset and fiat trade settlements, ensuring timely and accurate processes. Responsibilities include trade reconciliation, treasury management, liaising with internal and external teams, asset rebalancing, managing banking beneficiaries, tracking margin positions, and reporting technical/financial problems. You will also contribute to process improvements and streamline trade reporting. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of trading operations experience, a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, and strong attention to detail. Fluency in English and strong Excel skills are essential. Familiarity with Python and SQL is a plus.

Requirements

• 3+ years of prior trading and/or trading operations experience - with settlements and trading reconciliation at its core, and a strong preference if that included crypto assets
• Experience working in a crypto or tradfi banking environment across multiple currencies and managing different forms of money transfers/wires – with experience in managing clearing/settlement within cutoff times
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field e.g., Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc
• Based in the Americas geography
• Extremely strong attention to detail
• Self-organized and excellent communication
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• A demonstrable passion for digital assets and blockchain technologies, and an understanding of asset transfers across CEXes and DEXes
• 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

Responsibilities

• Managing digital asset and fiat related 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 and client communication support where needed
• Asset rebalancing and whitelisting of crypto addresses across multiple CEXs and DEXs; across multiple platforms
• Managing and adding new banking beneficiaries, and supporting trading desks with fiat transfers and settlements. Liaising with Keyrock’s account managers at banks on confirming cut-off times, fees and any troubleshooting of banking services
• Tracking and alerting internal and external client margin and net open positions, and liaising with clients on transfer of assets to maintain margin thresholds
• Keeping track of and reporting technical and financial problems and providing support to the dev team for improvements and automating processes
• Monitoring and project managing internal operations ticketing processes and working with trading teams to streamline and improve these
• Overseeing and helping enhance the collection, documentation and organising of external counterparty FX and OTC related trade data for purposes of internal cost and best execution tracking
• Helping improve the efficiency and design of a more streamlined trade reporting and post-trade settlement procedures

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Python and SQL languages; and experience with querying database trade data and generating reports and dashboards

Benefits

• A competitive salary package, with various benefits depending on the method of engagement (employee or freelancer)
• Autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely