Member of Trading Operations, Trading Ops (Sioux Falls)

Member of Trading Operations, Trading Ops

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world's most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

As a Member of Trading Operations, you are responsible for supporting our clients in their daily activities. You will play a crucial role in supporting the post-trade life-cycle of the activity of various digital assets, ensuring timely settlements, reconciliations, and implementing strong risk mitigation strategies. This position requires a deep understanding of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, financial operations, and risk management. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills, the ability to handle complex tasks, organizational knowledge, and effective communication and influence capabilities. You have a full understanding of the settlement operations, as well as the regulatory and operational considerations of each step. You support client interactions across multiple teams and work closely with trading to ensure processes and procedures are developed and continuously refined.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Trading Operations, Trading Ops role :

Technical Skills :

• Leverage deep understanding of traditional financial services, products and strategies as required to provide thought leadership and strategic support to Anchorage Digital clients and the goals they have to implement their own strategies.
• Efficiently manage all Counterparty and Client settlement requests within agreed SLAs. Monitor progress towards meeting established KPIs for trade operations.
• Support day-to-day spot, lending, and derivatives operations, ensuring all relevant processing and maintenance functions are completed accurately, within prescribed time-frames, and in accordance with established procedures.
• Utilize blockchain explorers, trading platforms, and other relevant software and tools to reconcile and monitor the activity of different digital assets across both internal ledgers and external systems (banks, custodians, etc.).
• Perform cash positioning and inventory management for various product flows to ensure that we have the right assets at the right place at the right time to optimize the firm's treasury management, mitigate risks, and streamline client settlements.
• Work with engineering and product teams to streamline trading, settlement, and risk operations workflows
• Collaborate with the Accounting and Finance teams to ensure timely provision of accurate trade and settlement data and assist in the resolution of breaks.
• Develop and implement process improvement initiatives to ensure optimal operational efficiency
• Have an understanding of the crypto industry's landscape, tokens and protocols, and the different verticals in which they're deployed (staking, governance, etc.).

Complexity and Impact of Work :

Organizational Knowledge :

Communication and Influence :

You may be a fit for this role if you have :

Although not a requirement, bonus points if :

About Anchorage Digital : Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal : building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at workregardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements.