POSITION:
Crypto Product Specialist
Leverage your experience in a role that manages approximately $1.5bn in assets under management in over 9 Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) and different cryptocurrencies and structures. Beyond ensuring the products are performing as intended, the Crypto ETP team plays a huge role in designing new and innovative products, new product launches, and in driving efficiencies in the product complex through streamlining business processes, automation and effective service provider management.
KEY DETAILS:
REGION: Europe
LOCATION: London
JOB TYPE: Hybrid
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Day to day management and/or close oversight of the daily Crypto Product operations of the European crypto product set. This includes overseeing Creation/Redemption, rebalancing reconciliation, liquidity, whitelisting, AP onboarding, crypto security, tracking error, pricing, settlement, and ensuring that accurate information is being disseminated to the market.
- Portfolio management by ensuring correct tracking of the benchmarks and have the tools to do so efficiently and with minimum risk, expanding trading relationships.
- Improving and developing the crypto ETPs infrastructure by expanding staking, defining operational process, required tech build, settlement
efficiency, rebalancing reconciliation and so on. - Lead project management & business analysis for various projects including new product launches, product enhancements, and other Crypto operational initiatives.
- Monitoring the position versus competitor and ensure the range has the
most compelling value proposition at all times. - Assisting with product design and structuring, setting up new Crypto operational frameworks and business processes internally and with external counterparties.
- Managing relationships with key partners (administrators, custodians etc.) and liaising with others (exchanges, index providers etc.) as relevant throughout products’ life cycle and as issues come up.
- Driving efficiencies in the crypto product complex through evaluation of existing business processes, best practices, automation and/or vendor management.
- Monitoring Crypto operational risk and counterparty risk across the platform, devising and executing plans to reduce risk.
- Be an escalation point for issues – troubleshooting issues as wide as portfolio management, issues at any point of the creations/redemptions process, ETP prices or NAVs, information disseminated to the market (e.g., PCFs, index files), drawing on knowledge, experience and excellent judgement.
- Build relationships across internal (operation, product development, research, finance, legal and compliance) and external counterparties (administrators, transfer agents, custodians, designated brokers and approved participants, exchanges, external auditors and data providers).
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Degree level education, ideally in quantitative subject – mathematics, finance, physics, computer science, engineering etc.
- Crypto operations and/or trading in an asset management / corporate environment experience is essential.
- 3+ years’ experience in relevant roles in financial / crypto operations, fund accounting, portfolio management, trade support or product structuring.
- Demonstrated ability to understand highly complex products and apply quantitative techniques as part of oversight, including basic financial math (returns / standard deviations, compounding etc.)
- Superior proficiency in Excel is a must, with an ability to analyse large financial data sets in.
- Excel using pivot tables, array functions (index, match, vlookup etc.) etc.
- ETF experience – highly desirable.
- Experience with crypto operations – highly desirable.
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