OTC Trader & Investment Associate
About Us
Altify is a London-headquartered fintech with a global team across the UK, Europe, and South Africa (FSP No. 5272 and 53289). The business is backed by leading VC and Angel investors.
Altify's grown to serve over 80,000 clients and was named KPMG's Tech Innovator of the Year for Southern Africa in 2025.
The fintech operates through three divisions.
- App Brokerage: A mobile app and web platform that makes accessing the world's most valuable onchain alternative investments as simple as buying shares. AI is embedded into the core user experience to act as an investing assistant — supporting clients build wealth more intelligently.
- Institutional Trading Division: Offering bespoke OTC brokerage, market-making, and stablecoin minting services to licensed financial service providers, HNWIs, and FX desks.
- Licensing-as-a-Service: We provide regulatory licensing umbrella coverage to international fintechs enabling them to accelerate their market entry into South Africa.
Position Summary
We're looking for an OTC Trader & Investment Associate to support our Institutional Trading Desk (ITD) and act as a trusted point of contact for our clients. This is a hands-on role for someone deeply passionate about digital assets, trading, financial markets and tokenisation.
The desk is open from 07:30am to 07:00pm (GMT+2), with hours split across the team. Expect 75%+ of remuneration to be KPI-driven.
Your Core Focus
- Executing client trades within the ITD and managing end-to-end settlement flows.
- Managing on-chain wallets, liquidity and transfers, within defined limits and controls.
- Maintaining accurate trade records and ensuring all execution, settlement and client instruction records comply with Altify's internal controls and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Acting as the front-line point of contact for clients on execution and technical queries.
- Supporting high-value clients alongside senior team members.
- Assisting the investment team with due diligence and financial analysis on potential digital asset listings.
- Helping keep investment product factsheets accurate and current.
- Helping manage crypto portfolio rebalancing and risk controls in line with market conditions.
You'll thrive here if you live and breathe markets, are detail-orientated and have a deep understanding of the digital asset space.
Qualifications, Work Experience, and Skills
Required
- More than 5 years in trading, brokerage, digital assets, financial markets or trading operations.
- A degree in Finance, Economics, Commerce or similar.
- Strong practical knowledge of digital-asset markets — institutional execution, liquidity, settlement, custody controls, reconciliations and counterparty risk.
- Comfortable managing on-chain wallets, stablecoin transfers, whitelisting, confirmations, gas, chain selection and transaction finality.
- Comfortable navigating advanced trading interfaces and trading tools.
- Basic AML, sanctions, KYT and travel-rule awareness.
- Strong financial literacy — you can read a deal and stress-test the numbers, not just the sales deck.
- Sharp, accurate and process-driven.
- Clear communicator, written and spoken, comfortable client-facing.
- AI-native with extensive hands-on experience using Claude or Gemini — you use AI daily to speed up research, automate workflows and force-multiply your output.
Preferred
- Experience on an OTC, FX, brokerage or crypto trading desk specifically.
- CFA, CAIA, or progress towards one.
- Client-facing experience with HNWI or institutional clients.
- Personal crypto trading experience.
- RE5 exam passed or completed within 12 months of starting.
Perks & Benefits
- Fully remote work flexibility.
- A clear path to grow into a senior desk or investment role, with the mentorship and ownership to get there.
- A direct line to senior leadership and a real seat at the table.
- A budget for your home office setup.
- An annual learning and certification budget.
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