Trading Operations Specialist – Digital Assets (EU Time zone)

Website Keyrock

Digital asset market maker building scalable, self-adaptive tech



About the job
Keyrock was founded in 2017 and has quickly grown from 3 to over 150 people today. As an industry recognized liquidity provider and market maker, Keyrock is a leading European creator of algorithmic trading technologies in the digital asset space. With VC backing including Series B investment from Ripple, a constantly expanding global client base, and revenues growth 13x in 2021, Keyrock is one of Belgium’s fastest-growing fintech companies.

We’re currently active on over 80 exchanges and count numerous marketplaces and asset issuers among our clients, including some of the best-known companies in the digital assets space.

Keyrock’s beating heart is its technical team filled with crypto and DeFi natives, software engineers, digital scientists and academics, who themselves are supported by university professors, industry-leading experts and a strong management team. Over the years Keyrock has become a company that is both idealistic and practical.

We are looking for…a dedicated Trading Operations Support Professional, dedicated to EU trading hours and our clients in this geographical area.

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 and contributing to the design of a more streamlined trade reporting and post-trade settlement procedures.

Background And Experience
2+ years of prior trading operations experience – with settlements and trading reconciliation at its core, and a strong preference if that included crypto assets.
Experience working with banking across multiple currencies and managing different forms of money transfers/wires – with experience in managing clearing/settlement within cutoff times.
In addition to crypto and FX, exposure to and an understanding of one or more key Trad-fi asset classes e.g., derivatives either from a trading or operational background.
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 passion for digital assets and blockchain technologies, and an understanding of asset transfers across CEXes and DEXes
Understanding of financial market structure
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.

Our recruitment philosophy

We believe the most important aspect of our recruitment process is self-awareness: we are looking for people who have a clear understanding of themselves and what they are looking for in their professional career. That means that we expect to work with people who not only have the right skills, but who have also made the conscious decision to look for a company in our industry and with our characteristics. An ideal team member is assertive and collaborative at the same time and has a strong drive to generate robust results in a sustainable way.

Our offer
A competitive salary package, including benefits that you choose and manage according to your needs and those of your family (car/bike, meal vouchers, health insurance, 25 days off, etc.)
Complete autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely
The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence
A ton of fun in a thriving and multicultural environment, with colleagues enjoying regular team building activities

Keyrock offers you both a career and a large range of benefits that we will gladly discuss in the course of the application process.

As an employer we are committed to build an inclusive, diverse and non-discriminating work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, creed and sexual orientation. We hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.

Benefits found in job post
Medical insurance

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