Operations Associate, Trading and Margin

Atomic Invest

$80K — $95K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active Series 24 and Series 57 required
  • 3-5 years overseeing trading or margin operations
  • Experience supervising inter-dealer market making in corporate securities
  • Expertise in Reg T and FINRA Rule 4210
  • Ability to manage trading operations and monitor PnL
  • Experience with margin calls and risk management
  • Comfort in a fast-paced, growing environment

Responsibilities

  • Provide registered supervision in Brokerage Operations for market making and margin activities
  • Review and approve trading and margin transactions
  • Maintain supervisory procedures and act as issue escalation point
  • Shape the supervisory framework for compliance as the firm grows
  • Oversee daily trading operations and manage risk limits
  • Issue and verify margin calls and resolve client escalations
  • Ensure adherence to day-trading account rules and collateral haircuts

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility
  • Opportunity to shape compliance frameworks in a growing firm
  • Direct involvement in dynamic market activities
  • Collaboration with trading and operations teams
  • Exposure to high-growth environment and innovative products
Full Job Description
Operations Associate, Trading and Margin

US - FTE | Remote

Active Series 24, Series 57 required

Once here, you will
  • Serve as an associate within Brokerage Operations, providing registered supervision over inter-dealer market making activity in corporate securities and margin lending and financing.
  • Be a key control point for the business: Reviewing and approving trading and margin activity, maintaining supervisory procedures, and acting as the escalation point for issues surfaced by the trading, onboarding, and operations teams.
  • Help shape the supervisory framework that keeps the firm compliant as Atomic scales its broker-dealer capabilities and new products and activities come online.
What we are looking for

We're looking for a hands-on principal who can own day-to-day supervisory responsibility for market making and underwriting activity, not just sign off on it. Requirements: :
  • Active Series 57 and Series 24
  • Three to five years of direct experience in overseeing trading and/or margin
  • Demonstrated experience supervising inter-dealer market making activity in corporate securities
  • Deep subject matter expertise in Reg T and FINRA Rule 4210, portfolio margin
  • Oversee daily trading operations, monitor real-time profit and loss (PnL), and manage risk limits across proprietary or agency trading desks.
  • Issuing and verifying margin calls, handling day-trading account rules, setting house collateral haircuts, and resolving branch/client escalations.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-growth environment with evolving processes

Candidates who don't meet all of the above must have direct experience in at least one of: inter-dealer market making in corporate securities or margin financing.

Ideal candidates will also have:
  • Prior experience in onboarding, securities lending, or other brokerage operational activities preferred
  • Underwriting, corporate actions experience is a bonus

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