Broker Dealer Operations, Associate

Coinbase, Inc.; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first but in-person collaborative company seeking an Associate in Broker Dealer Operations. You will help run the daily operational engine behind our U.S.

equities brokerage experience, handling reconciliations, transfers, and corporate actions with precision. You will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Trading, CX, Compliance, Finance, and Apex to improve workflows, resolve exceptions, and strengthen controls, while maintaining human oversight of AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years in financial services or brokerage operations.
• Solid understanding of U.S. equities trade lifecycle including settlements.
• Experience investigating data breaks and managing exceptions.
• Ability to follow procedures in a regulated environment with sound judgment on exceptions.
• Familiarity with clearing platforms and relevant software tools.

Responsibilities

• Execute daily reconciliations of trades, positions, balances, and cash with documentation.
• Support onboarding and maintenance workflows, including reviews and status checks.
• Process inbound/outbound securities transfers (ACATs) end-to-end.
• Monitor alerts, prioritize issues, and coordinate remediation across teams.
• Review corporate actions, deadlines, allocations, and post-event discrepancies.
• Identify failure modes and propose improvements to reduce manual work and improve outcomes.

Skills

Financial services operations

U.S. equities lifecycle

Data break investigation

Regulated environment compliance

Apex Clearing familiarity

Jira

SQL

Workflow automation tools

Generative AI governance

Tools

Jira

SQL

Apex Clearing

Workflow automation tools

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

As an Associate, Broker Dealer Operations, you'll join the Coinbase Capital Markets team within Finance and help run the daily operational engine behind our U.S. equities brokerage experience. This team keeps customer accounts, trades, cash, positions, transfers, and corporate actions accurate, controlled, and scalable. You'll execute core broker-dealer workflows, investigate exceptions, and drive improvements that make the operation safer and more efficient for millions of customers.

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.

Required skills and experience:

• 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.

Position ID: P78331

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*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$121,410—$127,800 USD

• *Equal Opportunity Employer: *Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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