Trading Operations Specialist - Digital Assets

Trading Operations Specialist - Digital Assets

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Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change‑maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation. We now rock with over 220 team members around the world, hail from 42 nationalities, and operate primarily remotely with hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore. We trade on more than 80 exchanges and provide services spanning market‑making, options trading, high‑frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi.

We pioneer Rust in algorithmic trading, support Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program, inject liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols, and drive industry progress through research and governance initiatives.

A dedicated Trading Operations Specialist to become a core part of the EMEA‑based trading operations team, working closely with trading, treasury, and wider operations during EMEA trading hours.

• 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 refine collateral and clearing risk management processes, enhance controls, and embrace new methods and technologies.
• Horizon scan to increase awareness of potential operational risks affecting the business.
• Continually drive enhanced efficiency and client service for all collateral management and clearing risk processes.
• Ensuring regulatory compliance with margin processes.
• Managing digital asset and fiat trade settlement and communicating with internal and external counter parties to ensure timely and accurate settlements.
• Trade reconciliation from post‑trade to settlement to ensure correct and timely settlement.
• Liaising internally with trading, OTC, and options teams on balances and settlement status, and providing administrative and client communication support.
• Asset rebalancing and whitelisting of crypto addresses across multiple CEXs and DEXs.

• 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, preferably involving crypto assets.
• Experience working in a crypto or tradfi banking environment across multiple currencies, managing clearing/settlement within cutoff times.
• Knowledge of financial products including spot and derivative instruments and the risk/reward tradeoffs of leveraged (margined) instruments.
• Understanding of the functions of exchanges, clearing houses, initial & variation margin.
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc.).
• Based in the London area and able to work in a hybrid arrangement.

• Strong SQL and Python skills to develop and query margin monitoring tools.
• 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, with an understanding of asset transfers across CEXes and DEXes.
• Adaptable and a strong team player, while thriving in a fast‑paced environment.
• Fluent in English.

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

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Finance and Sales