Global Settlements Associate 1

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role:

Global Equity Settlement

Own the end-to-end global equity settlement process, partnering with our custodian, counterparties, and internal stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate settlement across multiple international markets.

Ensure transactions are accurately recorded across internal and external systems to facilitate successful settlement.

Monitor daily settlement activity and proactively identify transactions at risk of failing.

Investigate and resolve settlement exceptions, trade discrepancies, and failing transactions.

Review buy-ins, settlement penalties, and aged fails while coordinating remediation efforts with counterparties and our custodian.

Monitor trade matching through SWIFT and settlement platforms, ensuring counterparties affirm and match trades within required market deadlines.

Trade Exception Management

Investigate and resolve trade mismatches, including:

Settlement instruction discrepancies

Quantity and price differences

Allocation issues

Counterparty booking errors

FX and market-specific settlement exceptions

Partner closely with trading, finance, compliance, counterparties, and custodians to drive timely resolution of settlement issues.

Escalate complex settlement discrepancies and operational risks to the Director of Brokerage Operations when appropriate.

Cash & Position Reconciliations

Perform daily reconciliations of securities positions and cash balances across multiple global markets and currencies.

Investigate and resolve cash and stock reconciliation breaks between internal ledgers and external custodians.

Produce reconciliation reports identifying money differences, position discrepancies, and operational exceptions.