Treasury Operations Associate

As a Treasury Operations Associate at Copper, you'll manage the company's cash and transaction control infrastructure, sitting within the Finance Operations function. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, you take ownership of liquidity management, FX and investment activities across fiat and digital asset portfolios, support accurate processing of client and internal transactions, and develop the controls framework that underpins Copper's treasury operations.

What you'll do

• Manage daily cash positions across fiat and digital asset accounts, ensuring internal records reconcile to external bank and custodian statements
• Own and manage liquidity across fiat and digital asset accounts, proactively identifying and resolving funding shortfalls or surpluses to ensure optimal cash deployment
• Process and authorise deposits, withdrawals and fund transfers across office and client accounts in line with internal controls and approval frameworks
• Oversee end-to-end transaction processing across Copper client and proprietary portfolios, covering both fiat and digital asset flows
• Perform regular reconciliations and investigate and resolve breaks in a timely manner, escalating material discrepancies appropriately
• Support fiat trade settlements, ensuring accurate and timely processing of transactions across the trade lifecycle
• Manage FX transactions and monitor currency exposures across fiat portfolios, ensuring effective execution and hedging in line with internal treasury guidelines
• Support the management of Copper's investment activities, including monitoring investment positions and ensuring compliance with accepted risk parameters
• Support month-end close activities, ensuring all treasury-related entries and reconciliations are completed accurately and on time
• Produce and distribute various treasury and management reports, providing clear and timely data on cash positions, transaction activity and other key treasury metrics
• Contribute to the development and documentation of Copper's end-to-end cash and transaction control framework across all portfolios
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency and control through process redesign, automation or tooling
• Support the Product team with automation initiatives and participate in various projects aimed at process efficiencies
• Support audit and regulatory requests relating to treasury operations as required

What you bring

• 1–2 years' experience in a cash or transaction operations role, ideally within financial services, fintech or digital assets
• A strong control and process mindset with practical experience applying this within a Finance or Operations environment
• Confident communication skills, able to engage clearly and professionally with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• A degree-level education or equivalent
• You are studying towards or qualified in a relevant accounting or finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA or equivalent
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP and data modelling
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail, with a methodical approach to managing complex or high-volume transactions

Nice to have

• Familiarity with digital assets, cryptocurrency markets or blockchain-based settlement infrastructure
• Understanding of and genuine interest in trade lifecycle management from execution through to settlement
• Experience with treasury management systems (TMS) or financial ERP platforms such as NetSuite, SAP, or Oracle
• Understanding of FX markets and multi-currency cash management
• Experience working in a high-growth or scaling fintech or digital asset environment
• Exposure to API-driven or automated reconciliation tooling

What we offer

• A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays, plus one additional day of annual leave for each year of service
• Comprehensive medical insurance inclusive of dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage, with medical history disregarded
• Life insurance
• Enhanced pension contributions including an enhanced employer matching contribution
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Hybrid working model combining office and flexible remote work

About Copper

Founded in 2018, Copper provides institutional digital asset infrastructure focused on custody, collateral management, and prime services. The company's Multi-Party Computation (MPC) custody technology can connect to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and staking pools without assets leaving custody. ClearLoop, Copper's prime services solution, enables customers to trade and settle directly from MPC-secured wallets with settlement times of a few milliseconds. Copper holds one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A+ rated insurer.