Operations Lead Trading

Skills

About the Role

You will own the daily operating engine for the FCM, ensuring trades, positions, margin calls, cash movements, and customer accounts are processed accurately, on time, and under documented controls. You will build operating procedures and controls, manage clearing and reconciliation processes, coordinate with Risk and Finance, oversee customer operations and vendors, and support regulatory reviews.

Requirements

• 6+ years of progressively responsible futures or clearing operations experience
• End-to-end trade flow experience across execution, clearing, settlement, and reporting
• Experience with position management and margin
• Knowledge of FCM obligations, customer-funds segregation, daily segregation computations, and books and records
• Clean regulatory record with no NFA or FINRA disciplinary history
• Process and control design skills
• SQL or advanced Excel
• Ability to partner with engineers on automation

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end trade flow, clearing interfaces, daily clearing files, statements, and confirmations
• Run daily trade, position, margin, fee, and cash reconciliations and resolve breaks
• Run margin processing, margin calls, settlement, and coordinate liquidations or position reductions with Risk
• Operate fiat and stablecoin deposit and withdrawal flows, bank and depository movements, and dual-control approvals
• Own account opening handoffs, account maintenance, statements, tax-document workflows, and operational customer escalations
• Manage relationships with clearing houses, banks, custodians, funding rails, and back-office systems
• Run SLAs, incident management, business continuity and disaster recovery, and launch readiness
• Write procedures, maker-checker controls, risk indicators, and management reporting
• Explain and defend the operating model to regulators during registration and examinations