Senior Brokerage Operations Associate

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About the role

  • Senior Brokerage Operations Associate building automated Canadian brokerage workflows at Alpaca, a global brokerage infrastructure provider. Owning clearing, custody, registered-account, tax, and launch operations.

Responsibilities

  • Own account lifecycle and client/introducing-broker servicing, including onboarding handoffs, KYC/AML operations interfaces, maintenance, and transfers
  • Define scalable account opening, trade processing, and client cash and securities custody processes for ACCC
  • Establish operating splits with partner brokers across accounts, trades, and client assets
  • Own trade lifecycle operations including capture, affirmation, clearing, settlement, fails, and breaks
  • Manage custody and asset servicing, including segregation, security movements, corporate actions, and cash
  • Build books and records, reconciliations, exception management, and operational controls
  • Develop registered-account and tax operations for TFSA, RRSP, RESP, tax lots, cost basis, withholding, and reporting
  • Create day-two production runbooks, escalations, vendor/custody interfaces, and BCP/DR playbooks
  • Translate Canadian dealer, clearing, custody, and operational-risk requirements into SOPs, RACI, controls, and exception paths
  • Redesign high-volume and high-risk work for straight-through processing, rules, exception queues, and measurable SLAs
  • Prototype and productize AI-assisted operations with appropriate human oversight
  • Prepare for ACCC go-live and drive continuous improvement after launch
  • Collaborate with the ACCC President / UDP, Compliance, Product, Engineering, and global Operations
  • Coach partners through expertise, documentation, and decision logs without managing a team

Requirements

  • 10+ years deep, hands-on Canadian brokerage operations experience at a CIRO dealer, carrying broker, custodian, clearing firm, or brokerage ops function in Canada
  • Fluent in clearing / settlement, custody, CDS / CDSX (or equivalent), fails, corporate actions, tax, cash / securities operations, account servicing, and introducing / carrying arrangements
  • Demonstrated depth in at least two of: clearing / settlement; custody & asset servicing; books & records / reconciliations; registered accounts & tax
  • Regulatory-literate in CIRO / provincial securities / CSA context
  • Experience redesigning and shipping process and tooling changes that stuck
  • Practical experience with workflow automation, rules engines, RPA, or AI-assisted operations
  • Exceptional written communication for SOPs, RACI, decision logs, and cross-functional requirements
  • Nice-to-haves include greenfield Canadian dealer / clearing / custody stand-up, API-first or broker-as-a-service platforms, US and Canada dual-entity operations, deep CDS / CDSX experience, registered-account or Canadian tax-ops stand-up, and AI-native operations workflows

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health Benefits
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

RPA

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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