Job description
Market Operations Specialist (f/m/d)
Company Overview
At lemon.markets, we enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API.
Job Summary
As our Market Operations Specialist, you will help ensure that our daily trading and post-trade operations run reliably, transparently, and at scale. You will join the Investing Operations team, working closely with colleagues across investment operations, corporate actions, and securities operations, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and external partners where operational processes intersect.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute recurring market operations and trading-related processes across the order and post-trade lifecycle, ensuring reliable daily operations and consistent service quality for partners and end investors.
- Monitor core controls such as best execution oversight, regulatory reporting, and instrument master data management, helping maintain operational accuracy, compliance, and transparency.
- Investigate operational exceptions, breaks, and failed workflows together with internal stakeholders and external partners, resolving issues quickly to reduce risk and avoid downstream disruption.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to surface tooling gaps, process pain points, and automation opportunities, enabling more scalable workflows and less manual operational effort.
- Support reconciliations, reporting, and issue resolution across systems and counterparties, helping create a stronger control environment and more reliable operational outcomes.
- Improve documentation, process visibility, and operational discipline across recurring and one-off workflows, so the team can scale sustainably and respond effectively in a dynamic market environment.
Requirements / Qualifications
- You bring hands-on experience from market operations, brokerage operations, middle or back office, trade support, or a similar environment with exposure to pre-trade, trading, and post-trade processes.
- You have broad knowledge of financial instruments, market infrastructure, and the operational realities of working with banks, brokers, exchanges, market makers, or fintechs.
- You are confident with reconciliations, controls, incident handling, exception management, and operational reporting in regulated trading environments.
- You are comfortable using spreadsheets, dashboards, internal tools, and written documentation to manage recurring processes and drive clarity.
- You work in a structured, detail-oriented, and hands-on way, take ownership of recurring operations, and stay focused on what is most critical in dynamic situations.
- You enjoy improving broken processes, collaborating across functions, and contributing to more scalable operations through better structure, tooling, and automation input.
Location
Germany (Hybrid)
Employment Type
Full time
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary package.
- Flexible working hours with core hours from 12:00 to 16:00.
- Hybrid work setup.
- Personal development, mentorship, and annual learning budget.
- Deutschlandticket sponsorship and discounts on Beatvest.
- Workation policy (up to 60 days per year).
Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply.
