Trading Operations Specialist – Digital Assets

Methodfi; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital asset firm is seeking a Trading Operations Specialist to join their EMEA trading operations team. This role involves managing margin calls, trade settlements, and enhancing operational efficiency. Ideal candidates will have over 3 years of experience in trading operations, especially with crypto assets. Strong skills in SQL and Python are essential. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement in London.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Entrepreneurial experience in a collaborative team

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in collateral management or risk clearing function.
• 3+ years in trading operations with a focus on settlements and trading reconciliation.
• Experience in a crypto or traditional banking environment handling multiple currencies.
• Understanding of financial products and risk/reward tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of exchanges and margin processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily margin calls and settle cash/crypto collateral movements.
• Monitor client exposures and escalate risks when necessary.
• Drive improvements in collateral and clearing risk management.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with margin processes.
• Communicate with counterparties for timely trade settlements.

Skills

Strong SQL

Python

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Problem-solving abilities

Communication skills

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field

Job description

About Keyrock

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.

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 are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well-established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Today, our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.

But we’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator. We're pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading, and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program. We upgrade ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols. And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives.

At Keyrock, we're not just envisioning the future of digital assets. We're actively building it.

What we are looking for…

We are looking for a dedicated Trading Operations Specialist, to become a core part of the EMEA based trading operations team – dedicated to working closely with our trading, treasury and wider operations teams during EMEA trading hours.

Job description

• 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 allow the organization to refine collateral and clearing risk management processes, enhance controls, and embrace new methods and technologies to stay ahead of potential risks.
• Horizon scan to increase awareness of the potential operational risks affecting the business.
• Continually drive for enhanced efficiency and client service (internal and external) for all collateral management and clearing risk processes.
• Ensuring regulatory compliance with margin processes.
• Managing digital asset and fiat related trade settlement and communicating with internal and external trading counterparties to ensure timely and accurate settlements.
• Trade reconciliation from post trade to settlement to ensure correct and timely settlement.
• 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.

Background and experience

• 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, 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 cutoff times.
• Knowledge and understanding of financial products including spot and derivative instruments and the risk/reward tradeoffs of leveraged (margined) instruments.
• Understanding the function of exchanges, clearing houses, initial & variation margin.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field e.g., Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc.
• Based in the London area and able to work in a hybrid arrangement.

Competences and personality

• Strong SQL, 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, and an understanding of asset transfers across CEXes and DEXes.
• Adaptable and a strong team player, whilst working in a fast paced environment.
• Fluent in English.

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness in our recruitment process. We seek people who understand themselves and their career goals. We're after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer

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

As an employer we are committed to building a positive and collaborative work environment. We hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, passing which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

https://keyrock.com/careers/