Treasury Operations, FCM

About Clear Street: 

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimizing risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Role:

Responsible for managing day to day Futures Clearing Merchant (FCM) treasury activities, including reconciling and accrual investment portfolio, managing daily cash flows and monitoring of cash and securities movements between exchange, carrying broker and bank depositories. FCM project leader in Swift 

Primary point of contact for FCM Bank relationship management and user administration.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for management of day-to-day FCM treasury operations functions 
• Reconciling exchange cash and collateral deposits
• Manage daily cash flows and movement of funds and transactions to support clearing operations.
• Assist with the management of the Treasury Investment Portfolio, liaison with FCM Investment Committee and Risk, provide daily reporting to management. 
• Review foreign currency balances, and anticipated currency needs, instruct conversions as required.
• Reconciliation of Bank interest and fees
• Assist Finance with the firm’s residual interest, segregation, and customer cash management regulatory compliance.
• Month end close tasks, as applicable.
• Maintain Treasury policies and procedures.

Requirements:

• At least five (5)  years of professional experience in treasury operations or a similar role
• Proficient with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) safekeeping rules
• Experience with major banking and exchange platforms used for Treasury Operations.  
• Experience with Global Exchange margin requirement timelines.
• Proficient is Microsoft Suite i.e. Word and Excel.
• Swift processing a plus.
• FINRA Series 99 a plus

We Offer: 

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, beginning on January 2, 2023, we are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. 

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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