About this role
Role Overview
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
- Two volunteering days per year
- Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
- Secclbrate
- our recognition programme that offers a mix of flexible rewards including extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget
- Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years
- 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
- Private medical insurance with AXA Health
- Enhanced Parental leave
- MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget
- £750 per person learning budget
- Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
- Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy
- Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing