Hybrid Trading Operations Specialist – Digital Assets

at Keyrock

• Job title: Trading Operations Specialist – Digital Assets
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Trading Operations Specialist managing digital asset and fiat trade settlements with internal and external parties. Focused on ensuring seamless operations in a fast-paced financial technology environment.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Added bonus: 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
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence