Crypto Operations (French Speaker)

The Operations team handles some of the most sensitive and high-impact digital asset workflows in the world, from seized-asset custody to sensitive covert deployments. We seek a bilingual (French/English) Crypto Operations specialist to strengthen our London HQ-based operations function and support French-speaking stakeholders and users of the Asset Reality Platform (including guidance, troubleshooting, documentation queries etc.). From time-to-time, you will need to travel to visit operational partners and public-sector clients (e.g., to France). Because this role involves sensitive workflows, secure environments, and real-time coordination, we operate primarily in-office (Bank tube). New joiners are expected to work from the office four to five days a week.

Why this role is special:

• Work on the front line of government-grade crypto operations and handle assets that come from real criminal investigations;
• Build infrastructure used by law-enforcement, defence, and asset recovery practitioners globally;
• Join a fast-growing startup with a stake in the outcome (compensation benchmarked for London, including stock options).

Responsibilities

• Manage key French-speaking clients, and support the broader team with managing custody workflows, settlements and reconciliations across multiple venues and banking partners, ensuring control completeness, auditability and timely execution.
• Custody operations: Operate and supervise MPC/HSM etc. wallet frameworks, address whitelisting, and policy controls; oversee secure asset movements across supported networks.
• Lifecycle control: Manage end-to-end post-trade processes (trade capture, confirmation, crypto/fiat settlement, reconciliations, break resolution) to institutional standards.
• Treasury operations: Monitor liquidity, funding queues and payment rails (SEPA/SWIFT/CHAPS); execute rebalancing and settlements with four-eyes controls and evidence.
• Documentation and assurance: Maintain SOPs/runbooks; ensure artefacts (receipts, confirmations, certificates, invoices) are complete and available for internal/external audit.
• Issue management: Lead your own incident logging and root-cause analysis, track corrective/preventive actions, and report on control effectiveness.
• Change and automation: Partner with product/engineering to improve reconciliations, monitoring and exception handling; contribute to pragmatic automation (SQL/scripts/sheets/dashboards).
• External coordination: Liaise with exchanges, liquidity providers, custody technology vendors, and banks; oversee onboarding and conformance testing.
• Regulatory alignment: Operate within AML/CTF parameters and support MiCA/FCA/etc. obligations in concert with Compliance.

Candidate Profile

• We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and those with transferable skills from other sectors.
• Essential

• Language: French (native/professional), English (native/professional)
• Experience: hands-on crypto back/middle-office or custody operations (exchange, broker, market-maker, custodian, or fintech). You’ve moved assets at scale, run settlements, reconciliations, and breaks investigations.
• Crypto knowledge: strong understanding of public/private key encryption (multi-party computation, hardware security modules), smart contracts, liquidity pools, and the broader crypto ecosystem.
• Tooling and data: confident with spreadsheets; comfortable using SQL or scripting for checks/automation; familiar with ticketing and on-call practices.
• Execution mindset: bias to action with high attention to detail; calm under time pressure; excellent stakeholder communication across legal, finance, risk, and engineering.

• Experience with regulatory/security frameworks (FCA, MiCA, ISO27001, SOC 2, DORA, etc.).
• Prior work in asset recovery, defence, law enforcement, or insolvency.

Working at Asset Reality

This role is ideal for someone passionate about helping law enforcement deliver better outcomes for victims through stronger tools, training, and public-private collaboration. Many agencies today are under-resourced and limited by legacy systems. You will be driven to help them to remove blockers and holistically solve this challenge, before, during and alongside our customer success team, beyond the point of sale as a partner in their mission.

Mission Note

Asset Reality is the first company in the world to provide a complete solution for both physical and virtual assets; making it easier to seize, manage, and dispose of them. Our platform replaces outdated, fragmented systems with a secure, end-to-end solution designed for law enforcement and government agencies.

Are you excited by the idea of building new solutions from the ground up? At Asset Reality, we are passionate about solving the challenges of asset recovery, and we want to grow our team with others who share that passion. We offer competitive salary, benefits, and commission, and as an early-stage startup, we provide a unique opportunity for financial reward that goes beyond the monthly paycheck through equity.