Trading Operations Specialist - Digital Assets (APAC Remote)

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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 180 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… a dedicated Trading Operations Specialist, to become a core part of the APAC based trading operations team - dedicated to working closely with our trading, treasury and wider operations teams during APAC 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 cutoff times.

Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field e.g., Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, etc.

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