Middle Office Specialist

Responsibilities

• Manage the settlement process for digital assets, communicating directly with counterparties to agree on settlement figures and coordinating the settlement of assets.
• Maintain an extreme level of attention to detail to mitigate operational risks, ensuring zero errors in high-value transactions that directly impact the firm's P&L.
• Work closely with traders to ensure efficient distribution of inventory across trading venues.
• Manage end-to-end middle office operations for equities, options, futures, and FX, executing complex reconciliations, settlements, and managing corporate actions and dividends.
• Assist in the design, creation, implementation, and improvement of robust operational workflows and controls.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Trading, Finance, Compliance, and Legal teams to identify and address regulatory implications across multiple products.
• Handle ad hoc tasks, including answering trade queries internally and externally.

Hard skills requirements

• BSc in business/finance/quantitative subjects
• 3+ years of experience in Middle Office/Trade Operations function in a financial services company with high-volume and complex operations (multiple products, multiple geographies, financial regulations)
• Experience in an HFT/market making business is a significant advantage
• Excellent Excel skills
• Proven experience in process improvement
• Strong interest in trading and a curiosity about blockchain, crypto, and DeFi
• Strong preference for experience with databases/SQL/reading and writing simple Python scripts
• Deep practical knowledge of traditional financial instruments, including equities, options, futures, and FX
• Series 99 license
• Professional crypto experience

Other Requirements

• Have an owner mentality: take ownership of tasks and projects
• Drive to understand the business beyond own role to add value to the overall business
• Comfortable working in a non-hierarchical organization without necessarily having direct reports
• Determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard and learn on the way
• Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset; prepared to work non-standard working hours when necessary (since we are a pivotal player in the crypto markets that don’t stop 24/7)
• Like working in the team collaborative environment

Opportunity

• Work at the world's leading algorithmic trading firm in digital assets
• Engaging projects offering accelerated responsibilities and ownership growth compared to traditional finance environments
• Vibrant working culture with team events, celebrations, and company-wide team building events
• Cool office in the heart of New York City which often hosts some of the leading industry events
• Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet with a startup vibe, collaborative, and entrepreneurial
• Performance-based compensation with a significant earning upside alongside standard perks like private medical insurance

Note: Please ensure you are eligible to work in the US, at the moment Wintermute USA is unfortunately not able to sponsor US visas; if visa is a consideration for you, feel free to apply to the UK or Singapore offices where we offer visas and potential longer-term reallocation to the US.