Senior Clearing Analyst

ABOUT POLYMARKET Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We're growing fast — both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire. ABOUT THE ROLE Polymarket is looking for a Senior Clearing Analyst to own clearing operations across our Control Desk, Clearinghouse, DCO, DCM, and ISV functions. Polymarket US is a CFTC-regulated Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization — and we are building the operational backbone from the ground up. This is a shift-based role covering 4:00 PM – 12:30 AM, where you'll own the evening control desk, make time-sensitive settlement decisions, and serve as the operational backstop when automated systems fall short. This is not a maintenance role and not a supervisory one. You will help define what good looks like, build processes that don't yet exist, and work directly with engineers to eliminate repetitive work over time. You need to be senior enough to make sound decisions independently, hands-on enough to build SOPs yourself, and sharp enough to identify what's broken before it becomes a problem. This role reports to the Head of Regulatory Operations. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Evaluate the existing DCO clearing environment and identify what needs to be built, improved, or replaced to support scale - Own clearing-related SOPs, runbooks, escalation paths, and internal documentation — if a process doesn't have a document, you write it; if it's outdated, you fix it - Partner daily with Control Desk, Clearinghouse, DCM, DCO, Finance, Treasury, Compliance, Product, Engineering, the ISV team, and CX to keep clearing operations running and drive improvements across all touch points - Serve as the operational thought leader for client-facing process quality — translate user pain points into process improvements and SLA enhancements, and close the loop between what clients experience and how the back office operates - Support treasury management, cash movement, reconciliation, settlement, and liquidity workflows; understand where the money is at every point in the lifecycle - Define and operate within SLAs — where they don't yet exist, propose them, document them, and hold the organization to them - Identify operational gaps, control weaknesses, and tooling deficiencies; bring problems forward with proposed solutions, not just observations - Partner with Product and Engineering to build and improve clearing tools, exception management workflows, dashboards, and operational controls - Support issue triage and resolution across clearing, settlement, treasury, and exchange operations — stay calm when things go sideways and move quickly to resolve WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 5+ years of hands-on experience in financial markets operations with direct, demonstrated depth across clearing, settlement, and treasury - Hands-on experience with treasury management, liquidity operations, cash movement, and reconciliation workflows — you understand where the money is and how it moves at every point in the lifecycle - Strong working knowledge of clearing workflows, trade lifecycle, reconciliation, settlement, operational controls, and escalation management - Experience operating in regulated financial services environments with a practical understanding of what compliance and control actually require - Ability to independently create SOPs, process maps, controls documentation, and runbooks — you don't need someone to write the outline - Strong analytical skills with the ability to work flui