OpenFX - Head of Trade Operations
Requirements
• Must-haves • 15+ years in trade operations, treasury or related functions, including senior leadership at large-scale fintechs and/or major financial institutions. • A record of building and scaling a trade or treasury operations function and leading teams across geographies, with clear evidence of personal ownership and measurable results. • Deep, technical command of the full trade lifecycle, FX markets, cross-border payments and multi-currency liquidity and cash management. • Strong people leadership, including setting clear expectations, coaching capable operators and building an effective team structure. • Excellent judgment on risk, controls and compliance in a regulated, multi-jurisdiction environment. • Strong written communication and executive judgment, including making ownership, tradeoffs and decisions clear. • Comfort working through ambiguity. You can set a clear way of working and move important work forward without waiting for a detailed playbook. • What helps you stand out • An MBA or a professional treasury certification (e.g., CTP). • Hands-on experience with trading and treasury management systems and platforms. • Experience building a trade or treasury operations function from the ground up (0 to 1) at a company scaling significantly. • Experience across multiple regulatory jurisdictions (US, UK, EU, UAE, India).
Responsibilities
• Lead and scale the Trade Operations function • Manage, coach and develop the Trade Operations team across geographies, with clear responsibilities, scorecards and development plans for each team member. • Build the operating model, coverage framework and capacity plan needed to run across IST, GMT and US time zones as OpenFX scales. • Set the standard for how the team executes, escalates and continuously improves. • Own the trade lifecycle end to end • Own execution, booking, confirmation, reconciliation and settlement across all currencies and corridors. • Drive down settlement discrepancies and operational breaks through process design, controls and system improvements. • Stand up real-time visibility into settlement status and operational breaks. • Own liquidity and treasury • Manage daily liquidity and cash across currencies, accounts and banking partners. • Build cash forecasting and rebalancing that improves working capital efficiency and reduces cost of funds. • Oversee short-term funding, investment and borrowing activity. • Own operational risk, controls and compliance • Build the operational, market and currency risk framework: limits, monitoring, escalation and audit trails. • Ensure trade and treasury activity adheres to regulation and internal policy across the US, UK, EU, UAE and India. • Drive automation, reporting and systems • Own the trade and treasury systems roadmap and drive automation over manual work wherever possible. • Standardize and automate reporting for leadership, partners and regulators. • Protect data integrity across trade and treasury systems. • Work clearly with other teams • Partner with Product on operational readiness for new products, features, corridors and currencies, so nothing ships without ops sign-off. Product owns the roadmap and requirements. • Partner with Partnerships on banking and liquidity relationships, SLAs and fee structures. Partnerships owns the relationship strategy. • Partner with Finance on planning, reconciliation and controls. Finance owns the books and financial reporting. • Partner with Compliance on regulatory requirements. Compliance and Legal own licensing and regulatory strategy.
Benefits
• Competitive salary and benefits package. • Equity in a rapidly growing company. • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup at the forefront of fintech innovation. • Opportunity to make a significant impact on global financial infrastructure. • Collaborative work culture with emphasis on personal and professional growth.
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