Senior Trade Operations Associate

FalconX

$119K — $161K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years in trading, hedge fund, or investment banking.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher required.
  • Experience with derivatives, spot, and/or credit products.
  • Strong self-management and organizational skills.
  • Experience in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
  • Interest in digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Responsibilities

  • Handle counterparty settlement requests within agreed timeframes.
  • Serve as point of contact for a portfolio of counterparties, tracking KPIs.
  • Collaborate with Trading Desk, Product, and Customer Success teams to meet client expectations.
  • Ensure effective reconciliation of trades and transfers across internal and external systems.
  • Monitor inventory needs related to settlement, lending, and borrowing activities.
  • Supply inputs for risk and compliance controls in a shifting regulatory climate.
  • Provide timely trade and settlement data to the Accounting team.
  • Enhance reconciliation processes to ensure data integrity and identify gaps.

Benefits

  • Participation in performance-linked bonus and equity options.
  • Comprehensive benefits package available.
  • Exposure to a dynamic and complex cryptocurrency market.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Handle all incoming counterparty settlement requests within a pre-agreed timeframe. Act as a point of contact for a portfolio of counterparties. Track towards assigned KPIs for trade operations.
  • Work in concert with Trading Desk, Product, and Customer Success teams to understand and deliver on their expectations with regards to serving clients.
  • Ensure trades, transfers and inventory reconciliation happens across different internal subsystems and external systems - banks, custodians, etc.
  • Monitor daily inventory needs for - settlement, lending & borrowing activity- and liaise directly with Treasury Management.
  • Provide inputs to compliance and risk teams to design pragmatic controls in this environment of changing regulatory landscape.
  • Adhere to established trade operations processes designed for regulatory compliance.
  • Liaise with Accounting and ensure proper trade and settlement data is provided to them on a timely basis.
  • Perform reconciliations between internal systems and external to ensure data integrity, identify breaks and resolve them by working with relevant teams.
  • Improve reconciliation processes, provide inputs in making them robust or/and identify gaps in current reconciliations so that there is completeness.

Requirements
  • 4-7 years of experience in a trading firm, hedge fund or Investment Bank
  • Bachelors Degree or higher required
  • Experience within Derivatives, Spot, and/or Credit
  • Superb self-management skills - you love organizing your work with the help of checklists and measuring your progress.
  • Previous experience working in fast-paced, high-pressure environment
  • Desire to become an expert on digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum

You will be required to gain an understanding of the broader responsibilities of cryptocurrency trade operations and the life cycle of institutional trading. You should strive to be the first point of contact for trade settlements and operations. You will have exposure to a wide range of functions in a complex and dynamic market. The ability to multitask and prioritize will be key, combined with the management of critical day-to-day functions.

Compensation

Base pay for this role is expected to be between $119,000 - $161,000 in the New York City Area. This expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role will also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance linked bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for a successful candidate will be determined based on a number of factors such as skillset, experience, and qualifications.

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