Manager- Clearing and Treasury Operations

About the role

Polymarket is seeking a Manager of Clearing and Treasury Operations to oversee clearing/treasury operations across various departments including Control Desk, Clearinghouse, DCO, DCM, and ISV. This role involves evaluating the current environment, defining processes, and ensuring smooth operations in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the existing DCO clearing/treasury environment and identify areas needing improvement or replacement to support scalability.
• Own clearing/treasury-related SOPs, runbooks, escalation paths, and internal documentation, ensuring they are up-to-date and comprehensive.
• Partner daily with Control Desk, Clearinghouse, DCM, DCO, Finance, Treasury, Compliance, Product, Engineering, the ISV team, and Customer Experience to ensure operations run smoothly and drive continuous improvements.
• Serve as the operational thought leader, translating client pain points into process improvements and SLA enhancements, and closing the loop between client experiences and back-office operations.
• Support treasury management, cash movement, reconciliation, settlement, and liquidity workflows; understand the money’s lifecycle and movements.
• Define and operate within Service Level Agreements (SLAs), proposing them, documenting them, and holding the organization accountable to them.
• Identify operational gaps, control weaknesses, and tooling deficiencies; bring problems forward with proposed solutions.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to build and improve clearing/treasury tools, exception management workflows, dashboards, and operational controls.
• Support issue triage and resolution across clearing, settlement, treasury, and exchange operations, maintaining composure during challenging situations and resolving issues promptly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in financial markets operations with direct, demonstrated depth across clearing, settlement, and treasury.
• Strong working knowledge of clearing and treasury workflows, trade lifecycle, reconciliation, settlement, operational controls, and escalation management.
• Experience operating in regulated financial services environments with a practical understanding of compliance and control requirements.
• Ability to independently create SOPs, process maps, controls documentation, and runbooks.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work fluidly across business, compliance, finance, and technical teams.
• Calm under pressure and effective in a high-velocity, high-stakes environment.
• Prior experience at an FCM, clearinghouse, exchange, broker-dealer, or regulated fintech.