Market Operations Specialist

About the role

As Market Operations Specialist, you will help ensure that daily trading and post-trade operations run reliably, transparently, and at scale. You will join the Investing Operations team, working closely with colleagues across investment operations, corporate actions, and securities operations, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and external partners where operational processes intersect.

What you'll do

• Execute recurring market operations and trading-related processes across the order and post-trade lifecycle, ensuring reliable daily operations and consistent service quality for partners and end investors.
• Monitor core controls such as best execution oversight, regulatory reporting, and instrument master data management, helping maintain operational accuracy, compliance, and transparency.
• Investigate operational exceptions, breaks, and failed workflows together with internal stakeholders and external partners, resolving issues quickly to reduce risk and avoid downstream disruption.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to surface tooling gaps, process pain points, and automation opportunities, enabling more scalable workflows and less manual operational effort.
• Support reconciliations, reporting, and issue resolution across systems and counterparties, helping create a stronger control environment and more reliable operational outcomes.
• Improve documentation, process visibility, and operational discipline across recurring and one-off workflows, so the team can scale sustainably and respond effectively in a dynamic market environment.

What you'll need

• Hands-on experience from market operations, brokerage operations, middle or back office, trade support, or a similar environment with exposure to pre-trade, trading, and post-trade processes.
• Broad knowledge of financial instruments, market infrastructure, and the operational realities of working with banks, brokers, exchanges, market makers, or fintechs.
• Confidence with reconciliations, controls, incident handling, exception management, and operational reporting in regulated trading environments.
• Comfortable using spreadsheets, dashboards, internal tools, and written documentation to manage recurring processes and drive clarity.
• Structured, detail-oriented, and hands-on approach, with ownership of recurring operations and focus on what is most critical in dynamic situations.
• Enjoy improving broken processes, collaborating across functions, and contributing to more scalable operations through better structure, tooling, and automation input.

What they offer

• Competitive salary based on your experience and value-add.
• Flexible working hours with shared core hours 12:00 to 16:00.
• Hybrid work setup from anywhere in Germany; individual contributors work 4+ days in Berlin office.
• Regular mentorship, stretch opportunities, clear career development framework, and annual learning budget.
• Deutschlandticket sponsorship and 50% off Beatvest for financial education.
• Workation: remote work anywhere in EU for up to 10 consecutive days, 60 days annually.