Trading Operations Specialist – Digital Assets (London Hybrid)

Methodfi; City of London; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital asset firm in London is seeking a Trading Operations Specialist to join their EMEA trading operations team. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in trading operations, particularly with crypto assets. Responsibilities include managing trade settlements, tracking treasury balances, and ensuring timely reconciliation of trades. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work within a dynamic team focused on excellence.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of trading or trading operations experience with settlements.
• Experience in crypto or traditional banking environments.
• Ability to manage multiple currency transfers within cut-off times.

Responsibilities

• Manage trade settlements and communications with counterparties.
• Reconcile trades post-settlement to ensure accuracy.
• Track treasury balances and liaise with teams on accounting.

Skills

Attention to detail

Self-organization

Analytical skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Familiarity with crypto assets

Strong Excel skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or related field

Tools

Python

SQL

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.

We are looking for a dedicated, London based 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

• 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.
• 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 any 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 automating 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 counterparty 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.

Background and experience

• 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 e.g., Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc.

Competences and personality

• 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.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to reconcile, track and present asset treasury and balances to internal and external counterparties.
• Added bonus: Familiarity with Python and SQL languages; and experience with querying database trade data and generating reports and dashboards.

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 with various benefits.
• 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.