Middle Office Associate Crypto

As a Middle Office Associate at Invenire Group, you perform daily reconciliation of positions, trades, and cash/token balances across centralised exchanges (CeFi), decentralised protocols (DeFi), and OTC counterparties. You investigate trade breaks and valuation discrepancies, build Python-based automation tools, and partner with traders, technologists, and risk teams to keep operations running smoothly and accurately.

What you'll do

• Perform daily reconciliation of positions, trades, and cash/token balances across centralised exchanges (CeFi), decentralised protocols (DeFi), and OTC counterparties
• Calculate and substantiate daily P&L across multiple asset types, ensuring valuation methodologies are applied consistently and correctly
• Investigate and resolve trade breaks, valuation discrepancies, and settlement issues, identifying root causes
• Build and maintain Python-based tools and notebooks to automate recurring reconciliation, reporting, and analysis workflows
• Query and manage data across internal databases to support reconciliation, reporting, and ad hoc analysis
• Synthesise complex, ambiguous situations, including breaks spanning multiple venues, counterparties, or asset types, into clear, streamlined deliverables for traders and senior management
• Partner with technology teams to scope and prioritise enhancements to reconciliation and valuation systems, and communicate complex operational issues in a clear, actionable way
• Gather requirements and data from various stakeholders (Trading, Finance, Risk, Technology) to identify issues and improve Middle Office processes

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, STEM, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience in trading operations, middle office, product control, or a related function; crypto/digital asset experience strongly preferred
• Solid understanding of databases and data structures; SQL experience required
• Experience with P&L calculation, trade reconciliation, and valuation concepts across asset types
• Exceptional attention to detail and a high bar for data accuracy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Owner mentality: you take ownership of tasks and projects, with a drive to understand the business beyond your own role to add value to the wider organisation

Nice to have

• Python skills, including experience with data libraries such as pandas and NumPy, and building automated workflows
• Familiarity with CeFi, DeFi, and OTC market structure, including exchange APIs, on-chain data, and bilateral settlement