Trading Operations Specialist - Digital Assets (London Hybrid)

Location: London

Employment Type: Full time

Location Type: Hybrid

Department: Operations, Trading Operations

About Keyrock:

Since our beginnings in 2017, we have grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation. Today, we have over 220 team members around the world, with a diverse team hailing from 42 nationalities, including backgrounds from DeFi natives to PhDs. We are trading on more than 80 exchanges and working with a wide array of asset issuers. Our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.

What we are looking for:

A dedicated, London-based Trading Operations Specialist to become a core part of the EMEA based trading operations team, 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.
• 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 troubleshooting 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 organisation 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, preferably including crypto assets.
• Experience working in a crypto or traditional finance banking environment across multiple currencies and managing different forms of money transfers/wires, with experience in managing clearing/settlement within cutoff times.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting).

Competences and personality:

• Extremely strong attention to detail.
• Self-organised 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 are looking for those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who is driven, collaborative, and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer:

A competitive salary package with various benefits and 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.