Stash

Brokerage Operations Associate

Stash$80K — $100K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1-3 years of brokerage operations/trading experience
  • Knowledge of equities trading, clearance, ACATS, and settlement; margin experience is a plus
  • Strong technology focus with a drive for operational automation
  • Understanding of FINRA and SEC regulations
  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, or a quantitative field
  • FINRA Series 99 required, with Series 7 and 63 preferred
  • Proficiency in MS Excel, intermediate SQL, and VBA/Macros
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools like Cursor or ChatGPT for enhancing productivity

Responsibilities

  • Complete daily brokerage operations tasks, including reconciliations for cash and trading
  • Ensure timely settlement of trades and resolve client side breaks
  • Review and reconcile house accounts and process trade bookings
  • Monitor and troubleshoot ACATs, ensuring accuracy in positions and cash
  • Manage corporate action events like dividends and interest payments
  • Support Legal and Compliance teams in establishing key risk indicators
  • Identify process improvement opportunities through automation and participate in project work

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package inclusive of salary and equity
  • Complimentary subscription to Stash+ account
  • Hybrid work environment with flexible office and remote work arrangements
  • Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy
  • Work-from-home equipment stipends and internet subsidies
  • Paid parental leave for all parents
  • Enhanced health and wellness benefits through partnered services
Full Job Description
The Brokerage Operations Associate will be a crucial addition to our Operations team and will be responsible for daily brokerage operations functions. If you're an equities trading expert with a desire to join a startup and make a huge impact from day 1 -- Stash is looking for you!

What you'll do:
  • Complete daily brokerage operations tasks/ workflows, including cash, position, and trading reconciliations to ensure that all operational procedures and risk controls are followed, documented, and properly maintained
  • Ensuring the timely settlement of all trades and underlying client allocations, including resolving client and street side breaks
  • Review and reconcile house accounts.
  • Process trade bookings and cancel/rebills
  • Process, monitor and troubleshoot ACATs
  • Ensure accuracy of all positions, cash and broker data on firm systems.
  • Provide ongoing user account maintenance and review of new and existing account activity
  • Monitor and manage mandatory and/or voluntary corporate action events including dividends and interest payments
  • Provide support to Legal, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams to establish, monitor and manage key risk indicators for all functions.
  • Identify opportunities to improve operational processes through automation
  • Participate in project work, including needs assessment, to build out and scale operational and technology platforms, including QA cycles

What we're looking for:
  • 1-3 years of brokerage operations/trading experience
  • Knowledge of Equities trading, clearance, ACATS, and settlement. Margin experience a plus
  • Technology-driven with a focus on the application of operational procedures and automation
  • Understanding of FINRA and SEC Regulatory framework
  • FINRA Series 99 required. Series 7, 63
  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, or quantitative field
  • Advanced skills in MS Excel
  • Intermediate skills in SQL and VBA/Macros
  • Proven hands-on experience with AI tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) as a core part of daily workflows, driving productivity and enhancing output quality, alongside a commitment to continuously developing AI expertise
  • Consistent integration of AI into workflows and decision-making, with strong judgment-validating outputs, adhering to Stash guidelines (especially for sensitive data), and owning the quality of AI-assisted work

Gold Stars:
  • Series 57 or ability to obtain within 90 days

#LI-Hybrid

Helping You Invest in Yourself
  • Comprehensive total rewards package, comprising compensation (salary and equity) and health care benefits
  • Complimentary subscription to Stash+ account
  • Hybrid Work Policy - We operate a hybrid work environment in NYC that prioritizes time together in the office to strengthen teamwork, innovation, and culture, while still allowing for work-from-home flexibility.
  • Flexible PTO
  • Work-from-home equipment stipends; home internet subsidy
  • Paid Parental Leave (offerings for birth giving and non-birth giving parents) Primary & Secondary
  • Enhanced health and wellness benefits through One Medical, Gympass, and Maven Health

Salary Range: $80,000- $100,000

The base salary range represents the reasonably anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, experience and competencies, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data for companies of our size and industry.

**No recruiters, please**

About Stash

Stash is a financial services company that provides a mobile app designed to help users save and invest money. The app offers a range of investment options, including stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds, and allows users to invest with as little as $5. Stash was founded in 2015 by Brandon Krieg and Ed Robinson, and is headquartered in New York, New York. The company has raised over $300 million in funding and has over 5 million users.
Learn more about Stash
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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