Global Financial Operations Platform Director

The role

The Head of Financial Operations Platform will define and deliver the architecture connecting trading, payment, banking, custody, blockchain, wallet and finance systems. This senior, hands-on leadership role involves building a scalable platform for the movement, recording, reconciliation and reporting of fiat and digital assets.

What you will do

• Define product strategy and multi-year roadmap for the financial operations platform.
• Manage the canonical transaction and financial-event model across fiat and digital assets.
• Oversee client and corporate asset subledgers, balances, positions, journals and transaction histories.
• Design settlement and asset-movement workflows across various financial and blockchain entities.
• Build automated multi-way transaction and balance-level reconciliation.
• Manage exception management, operational dashboards, control evidence, audit trails and management reporting.
• Conduct build-versus-buy assessments and manage strategic vendors and migrations.
• Establish target vision and operating principles for ledger, settlement, reconciliation and client asset controls.
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering to define scalable services, APIs, event schemas and data contracts.
• Coordinate operational readiness across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Treasury, Custody, Risk and Compliance.

Required qualifications

• Eight or more years in fintech, financial services, digital assets, brokerage, custody, payments or capital-markets technology.
• Five or more years of product-management, platform leadership, technical program leadership or comparable engineering experience.
• Demonstrated delivery of a ledger, reconciliation platform, settlement system, payments infrastructure, brokerage books-and-records platform or digital asset back office.
• Strong understanding of transaction lifecycles, balances, positions, journal entries, reconciliation and financial controls.
• Technical fluency with APIs, event-driven systems, data schemas, batch and streaming pipelines, integrations, idempotency and failure handling.
• Track record of delivering mission-critical systems in regulated or control-intensive environments.
• Strong written communication, structured problem-solving and senior stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Practical SQL proficiency
• Experience with both fiat and digital asset transaction flows
• Knowledge of blockchain transactions, wallets, custodians and on-chain settlement
• Experience integrating with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, NetSuite or Microsoft Dynamics
• Familiarity with client asset segregation, safeguarding, books and records or comparable regulatory requirements
• Experience with high-volume, continuously operating financial platforms
• Knowledge of double-entry accounting and financial-close processes
• Experience replacing manual reconciliation with automated platform capabilities
• Experience assessing or implementing platforms such as Crypto or comparable ledger, reconciliation and digital asset accounting solutions

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development
• Various team building programs and company events
• Wellness and meal allowances
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants

About the company

OKX is a leading crypto exchange and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications. It is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world.