Hybrid Trading & Risk Operations Specialist – Digital Assets

at Keyrock

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

About the role

• Trading & Risk Operations Specialist managing collateral movements and risk in digital assets. Enhancing process efficiency and ensuring compliance during EMEA trading hours within Keyrock's operations team.

Responsibilities

• Daily margin call management, reconciling, and settling cash/crypto collateral movements.
• Monitoring of client exposures and margin levels, escalating to Risk and Senior Management when necessary.
• Adopt a model of continuous improvement to allow the organization to refine collateral and clearing risk management processes, enhance controls, and embrace new methods and technologies to stay ahead of potential risks
• Horizon scan to increase awareness of the potential operational risks affecting the business
• Continually drive for enhanced efficiency and client service (internal and external) for all collateral management and clearing risk processes
• Ensuring regulatory compliance with margin processes
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 3+ years of prior experience in a collateral management or risk clearing function.
• 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.
• Knowledge and understanding of financial products including spot and derivative instruments and the risk/reward tradeoffs of leveraged (margined) instruments
• Understanding the function of exchanges, clearing houses, initial & variation margin
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field e.g., Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc.
• Based in the London area and able to work in a hybrid arrangement

Benefits

• A competitive salary package
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence