VP of Trade Operations
Posted on 12/29/2022
INACTIVE
Digital asset trading & brokerage platform
Company Overview
FalconX's mission is to build this connective tissue for open, permission-less, and truly global digital assets to be adopted by mainstream institutions at scale, today's digital infrastructure is grossly inadequate. FalconX is a digital asset trading platform that provides clients fast, secure and reliable execution using data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees.
Locations
San Francisco, CA, USA • Chicago, IL, USA • New York, NY, USA
Experience Level
Entry
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Desired Skills
Management
CategoriesNew
Operations & Logistics
Requirements
- Must have previous working experience in traditional finance or Crypto industries
- Familiarity with policies regarding settlement, clearing and institutional account management
- Experience managing client margin & risk positions
- Spot equity and/or Derivatives markets exposure and understand the underlying parties policies and positions
- Familiarity with regulations, controls, and best practices at a FINRA or NFA registered entity
- Past working experience at a small yet growing hedge fund, prop shop, clearing firm, or investment management firm is preferred
- Are outcome-oriented
- Have demonstrated diligent prioritization and focus, alongside empathetic cross-functional collaboration
- Team-oriented and demonstrated willingness to roll up the sleeves and get into the weeds in regards to financial transaction execution
- Extra credit: Strong understanding of cryptocurrency market structure and participants
- Team-oriented and demonstrated willingness to roll up the sleeves and get into the weeds
- Crypto industry experience required
- 5+ years management experience in crypto, tech, fintech or financial services
- Demonstrable experience improving process improvements that lead to positive outcomes
- Experience managing a medium to large organization including planning and costs preferably in a hybrid or remote environment
- Strong background working with engineering and product to improve company efficiency and scale
Responsibilities
- Team Management: Manage a team of managers who handle all incoming counter-party settlement requests within a pre-agreed timeframe. Act as a point for a portfolio of counter-parties
- Develop Strategies and Roadmap for the Operations organization that meet the strategic objectives of the company
- Manage the teams budget, contribution margins, headcount costs etc
- Process Management: develop KPIs for trade operations and monitor team performance
- Coordination: Liaise with Trading Desk, Product, and Customer Success teams to understand and deliver on their expectations with regards to serving clients
- Investigation: Investigate and resolve operational issues and develop scalable solutions
- Reconciliations: Ensure trades, transfers and inventory reconciliation happens across different internal subsystems and external systems - banks, custodians, etc
- System Improvement: Design simple, elegant and scalable post-trade operational processes - confirmation, settlement. Create product requirement documents for improving our in-house settlement platform and help with testing & rollout of system changes
- Inventory Management: Monitor daily inventory needs for - settlement, lending & borrowing activity- and liaise directly with counter-parties and agent banks to fulfill those needs
- Collateral Management: Ensure sufficient collateral and inventory is maintained across counter-parties and exchanges at all times for operational continuity
- Risk Management: Provide inputs to compliance and risk teams to design pragmatic controls in this environment of changing regulatory landscape
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulation across trade operations
- Accounting: Liaise with Accounting and ensure proper trade and settlement data is provided to them on a timely basis
Desired Qualifications
- Digital Asset or trading experience
- Experience as an early/founding team member or high growth startup
- MBA or commensurate experience managing strategic business initiatives