Broker Dealer Operations, Associate

Overview

Join the Coinbase Capital Markets team within Finance to run the daily operational engine behind the U.S. equities brokerage experience, keeping customer accounts, trades, cash, positions, transfers, and corporate actions accurate, controlled, and scalable.

What you'll do

• Execute daily trade, position, balance, and cash reconciliations between Coinbase and Apex records, investigating and resolving breaks with full documentation.
• Support customer account onboarding and maintenance workflows, including documentation review, status follow-up, and exception escalation.
• Process inbound and outbound securities transfers (ACATs) end-to-end, from intake review and eligibility checks through submission, tracking, and exception resolution.
• Monitor operational alerts and exception queues, prioritize customer- and risk-impacting issues, and coordinate remediation across Engineering, Product, Trading, CX, Compliance, Finance, and Apex.
• Support corporate action operations by reviewing event notices, monitoring deadlines, validating allocations, and investigating post-event discrepancies.
• Identify recurring failure modes and propose practical improvements to reduce manual work, shorten resolution time, and improve customer outcomes.

What you'll need

• 2+ years in financial services operations, brokerage operations, clearing and settlement, trade support, or a related operational control function.
• Working knowledge of U.S. equities trade lifecycle concepts, including order processing, settlement, positions, cash movements, corporate actions, and account transfers.
• Demonstrated experience investigating data breaks or operational exceptions across multiple systems and driving issues to documented resolution.
• Proven ability to follow documented procedures consistently in a regulated environment while exercising sound judgment on exceptions outside the runbook.
• Familiarity with clearing platforms (e.g., Apex Clearing), Jira, SQL, or workflow-automation tools used in brokerage operations.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges."
• Position ID: P78331.
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $121,410 — $127,800 USD. Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits.