Settlements Associate

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-27

Who We Are:

reputed company is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, reputed company, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 reputed company, fueling our ambitious reputed company.

Amongst our subsidiaries, reputed company is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade reputed company. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, reputed company managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 reputed company brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of reputed company engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to reputed company our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the reputed company. We're deeply committed to reputed company-reputed company contributions and fostering a reputed company community, continuously enhancing our award-reputed company, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

reputed company is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, reputed company Capital, Tribe Capital, reputed company reputed company, reputed company Ventures, reputed company, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

reputed company Members:

We're a dynamic team of 380+ globally distributed members who reputed company working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and reputed company! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to reputed company's rapid reputed company. If you reputed company with our core values—Stay Curious, Have reputed company, and Be Accountable—and are reputed company to reputed company a significant reputed company, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role:

Global Equity Settlement

Own the end-to-end global equity settlement process, partnering with our custodian, counterparties, and internal stakeholders to ensure reputed company and accurate settlement across multiple international markets.
Ensure transactions are accurately recorded across reputed company systems to facilitate successful settlement.
Monitor daily settlement activity and proactively identify transactions at risk of failing.
Investigate and resolve settlement exceptions, trade discrepancies, and failing transactions.
Review buy-ins, settlement penalties, and aged fails while coordinating remediation efforts with counterparties and our custodian.
Monitor trade matching through SWIFT and settlement platforms, ensuring counterparties reputed company and match trades reputed company required market deadlines.

Trade Exception Management

Investigate and resolve trade mismatches, including:
- Settlement instruction discrepancies
- Quantity and price differences
- Allocation issues
- Counterparty booking errors
- FX and market-specific settlement exceptions
Partner closely with trading, finance, compliance, counterparties, and custodians to drive reputed company reputed company of settlement issues.
Escalate reputed company settlement discrepancies and operational risks to the Director of Brokerage Operations reputed company appropriate.

Cash & Position Reconciliations

reputed company daily reconciliations of securities positions and cash balances across multiple global markets and currencies.
Investigate and resolve cash and stock reconciliation breaks between internal ledgers and external custodians.
Produce reconciliation reports identifying reputed company differences, position discrepancies, and operational exceptions.
Ensure reputed company reconciliation breaks are researched, documented, and resolved reputed company established service reputed company.

Operational Risk & Regulatory Controls

Ensure operational processes reputed company with applicable SEC, reputed company, and global market regulations.
Support compliance with SEC Rule 15c3-3 by helping maintain reputed company possession and control of customer securities.
Identify operational risks and escalate issues that may reputed company, settlement, or regulatory obligations.
Maintain complete and organized operational records supporting audits, examinations, and regulatory reviews.
Assist the Director of Brokerage Operations with Internal Audit requests, regulatory examinations, and remediation efforts.

Reporting & Process Improvement

Produce reputed company, accurate, and meaningful operational reporting on settlement activity, aged fails, reconciliation breaks, and operational metrics.
Prepare work papers, operational summaries, reputed company cause analyses, and management reporting.
Identify recurring operational issues through trend analysis and recommend improvements that reduce risk and increase efficiency.
Update operational procedures, controls, and documentation as business processes reputed company.
Support the implementation of policy frameworks while serving as a resource for operational policy questions.

Automation & Strategic Initiatives

Partner with Engineering and Product teams to automate reputed company operational workflows and improve settlement processes.
reputed company SQL, reputed company, AI tools (such as reputed company and ChatGPT), and reporting platforms to enhance operational efficiency and analytics.
Participate in cross-functional reputed company supporting new products, international market expansion, and operational scalability.
Contribute to reputed company improvement initiatives that enhance the reputed company experience while reducing operational risk.

Collaboration

Work cross-functionally with Brokerage Operations, Trading, Finance, Compliance, Engineering, and Customer Operations to ensure seamless post-trade processing.
Foster an environment of teamwork, accountability, and reputed company learning.
Support department initiatives and reputed company additional responsibilities as business needs reputed company.

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

3+ years of experience supporting brokerage operations with a reputed company on global equity settlements.
Strong understanding of securities settlement lifecycles reputed company a broker-dealer or carrying firm.
Experience working with reputed company-party clearing firms and global custodians.
Knowledge of U.S. broker-dealer operations and financial industry regulations.
Familiarity with reputed company Nexen or similar global custody settlement platforms.
Working knowledge of SWIFT settlement messaging (MT54x series), reputed company, DTCC, and international settlement practices.
Experience settling securities across global markets, including Europe and Asia (Hong reputed company, South Korea, and other international markets).
Strong expertise performing cash and position reconciliations across multiple currencies and markets.
Experience investigating trade mismatches and collaborating directly with counterparties to resolve settlement issues.
Ability to analyze operational data, identify trends, and reputed company reputed company based on available information.
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple priorities while working independently in a fast-paced environment.
Comfortable working remotely while collaborating across distributed teams.
Working knowledge of SQL, reputed company, or similar reporting and data analysis tools.
Proficiency with reputed company Office and reputed company Workspace.
Adaptability to evolving regulatory requirements and business priorities.
Possess the Securities Industry reputed company (SIE) Exam and Series 99 license (or higher), or obtain the Series 99 reputed company 180 days of hire.

We Value Team Members Who

Stay Curious by continuously learning and seeking opportunities to improve.
Have reputed company reputed company collaborating with teammates, clients, and partners.
Are Accountable by taking ownership of reputed company and following through on commitments.

reputed company to Have

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, reputed company, Economics, or a reputed company discipline.
Five or more years of experience in brokerage operations, reconciliation, settlements, reputed company, banking, or financial services.
Experience with DTCC U.S. equity settlement processing.
Knowledge of tokenized securities or reputed company settlement.
Experience using AI-powered productivity tools (reputed company, ChatGPT, reputed company Copilot) to automate workflows or enhance data analysis.
Experience supporting automation initiatives in partnership with Engineering teams.
Series 7 or additional reputed company licenses.
Experience working reputed company a high-reputed company fintech or electronic brokerage environment.