Operations delivery lead (Europe)

The role involves joining our European expansion team as an Operations delivery lead. You will work closely with a cross‑functional squad that spans product, commercial, compliance and engineering, helping to shape the operational capabilities needed to support Seccl’s growth in Europe. The role will be central to adapting and scaling our custody and trading operations for European markets, ensuring our operating model is robust, efficient and ready to support customer firms as they grow.

On a typical day you will be:

• Owning the operations workstream for the European launch across custody, assets and trading operations.
• Designing and implementing operational processes including reconciliations, asset transfers, corporate actions, payments and trading.
• Helping to shape the target operating model as the European business grows.
• Acting as the point of coordination for complex operational issues and driving resolution end‑to‑end.
• Supporting the onboarding of external partners, including defining operational requirements and assessing service levels.
• Working with product and engineering to translate operational requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
• Collaborating with compliance and regulatory leads to ensure processes meet local market expectations.
• Identifying operational risks early and implementing pragmatic controls in a fast‑moving regulated environment.

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

• Have strong experience in European custody and trading operations, ideally within a broker, custodian, fintech or platform business.
• Understand the end‑to‑end lifecycle of trades and assets, including settlement, reconciliation, corporate actions and payments.
• Have experience working across European markets and understand their operational nuances.
• Are comfortable operating in a fast‑paced environment where structures and processes are continually tested, improved and scaled.
• Can translate complex regulatory and operational requirements into clear, executable processes.
• Are hands‑on, equally comfortable designing processes as executing them.
• Can make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, risk and scalability in a regulated environment.
• Build strong cross‑functional relationships and communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary – dependant on experience + reviewed annually.
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for dependant leave.
• Two volunteering days per year.
• Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year.
• Secclbrate – our recognition programme that offers a mix of flexible rewards including extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget.
• Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years.
• 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance.
• Private medical insurance with AXA Health.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget.
• £750 per person learning budget.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace.
• Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy.
• Perkbox – Flexi‑points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing.

Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!