Trading Operations Specialist - Digital Assets Hybrid

Trading Operations Specialist - Digital Assets (London Hybrid)

Join Keyrock as a Trading Operations Specialist, based in London with a hybrid working model.

Since our beginnings in 2017, we have grown to be a leading change‑maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation. Today, we rock with over 220 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels and Singapore, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.
We trade on more than 80 exchanges, working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well‑established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Our services span market making, options trading, high‑frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.
Beyond being a service provider, we are pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for algorithmic trading and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program, inject liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols, and push the industry’s progress with research and governance initiatives.
At Keyrock, we’re not just envisioning the future of digital assets – we’re actively building it.

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

• Managing digital asset and fiat related trade settlement and communicating with internal and external trading counter parties 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 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 automation of 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 counter party 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.

• 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 cut‑off times.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc.).

• Extremely strong attention to detail.
• Self‑organised 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, working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Fluent in English.
• Strong Excel skills…