seccl - Operations delivery lead (Europe)

• Owning the operations workstream for the European launch across custody, assets and trading operations • Designing and implementing operational processes including reconciliations, asset transfers, corporate actions, payments and trading • Helping to shape the target operating model as the European business • Acting as the point of coordination for complex operational issues and driving resolution end-to-end • Supporting the onboarding of external partners, including defining operational requirements and assessing service levels • Working with product and engineering to translate operational requirements into scalable platform capabilities • Collaborating with compliance and regulatory leads to ensure processes meet local market expectations • Identifying operational risks early and implementing pragmatic controls in a fast-moving regulated environment • You’ll be successful in this role if you… • You have strong experience in European custody and trading operations, ideally within a broker, custodian, fintech or platform business • You understand the end-to-end lifecycle of trades and assets, including settlement, reconciliation, corporate actions and payments • You have experience working across European markets and understand their operational nuances • You’re comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where structures and processes are continually tested, improved and scaled • You can translate complex regulatory and operational requirements into clear, executable processes • You’re hands-on, equally comfortable designing processes as executing them • You can make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, risk and scalability in a regulated environment • You build strong cross-functional relationships and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders • This role isn’t for you if... • You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you’ll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you’ll be expected to shape your own progression • You’re not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Our speed and scalability are what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feet • You struggle to follow through on ideas. We value people who do what they say they will. If you care about something, you have the freedom here to make it happen • You don’t like change. You’ll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertainty