Operations Manager, Trading & Regulatory Compliance
tastylive
| Company | tastylive |
| Category | Legal & Compliance |
| Location | Chicago |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Company Name: tastyfx
Role: Operations Manager: Trading & Regulatory Compliance
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid, 3 days/week in office)
Licensure: Series 3 and 34 (preferred; must be willing to obtain if not currently held)
Salary : $120,000 - $150,000
The Operations Manager at tastyfx owns the full operational layer between our trading platforms and our regulatory obligations. This role is the operational backbone of a lean, fast-moving team, covering real-time platform monitoring and incident triage, NFA/CFTC regulatory documentation, capital charge oversight, and payment rail management. It requires someone equally comfortable managing a live MT5 incident in the morning and drafting a regulatory root cause analysis in the afternoon.
This is a senior individual contributor role reporting directly to the Managing Director, with a clear growth path as the operations team expands. Your work directly protects tastyfx's regulatory standing, client experience, and operational continuity within the IG Group and tastytrade ecosystem.
What You'll Do:
Trading Operations & Platform
Conduct daily platform health checks across MT5, TradingView, ProRealTime, and the tastyfx proprietary platform, confirming all markets are online and systems performing as expected
Review and assess overnight incidents each morning: determine tastyfx impact, evaluate reportability as a market event, and escalate major incidents to appropriate stakeholders
Serve as first responder for execution anomalies, stale pricing events, order server issues, and platform outages, owning resolution before escalation to MD
Liaise with IG Group core dealing and pricing teams to coordinate response on new or ongoing incidents
Process trade corrections, cash adjustments, and account-level remediations for customers affected by trading incidents
Investigate trade disputes flagged internally, by clients, or by the NFA; produce clear documentation of findings and resolution
Monitor clients on margin call and identify large or systemic margin call situations requiring escalation
Support ongoing MT4-to-MT5 migration: track account progress, coordinate with platform teams on version updates, and flag client-impacting issues
Maintain operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and SLAs for incident response and resolution
Track and analyze operational risk events (OREs); implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence and prepare monthly ORE reports
Regulatory & Compliance Operations
Own end-to-end drafting of all NFA incident reports and regulatory correspondence, with MD review and sign-off
Produce accurate, formal root cause analyses by coordinating with dealing, pricing, and platform teams following any reportable incident
Perform nightly review of the NFA Discrepancy Report and morning review of the NFA Processing Report; investigate and resolve flagged discrepancies or errors
Manage daily and periodic margin compliance monitoring across all active platforms (including NFA minimum margin rates and points-based systems), flagging anomalies and escalating appropriately
Support regulatory examinations and audits by providing operational documentation and responding to regulatory inquiries
Build and maintain internal SOPs for all operations functions, reducing institutional knowledge concentration risk
Track NFA/CFTC rule developments and assess operational impact; brief MD on compliance implications ahead of effective dates
Capital & Liquidity Management
Monitor the JPMorgan credit line on an intraday basis, tracking capital charge usage and flagging utilization concerns to the MD ahead of threshold breaches
Own oversight of tastyfx's capital charge obligations resulting from the IG Markets relationship, ensuring charges are accurately calculated, tracked, and reported
Coordinate with IG Group treasury and finance teams on capital charge reporting, reconcilia