Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Operations Specialist to join our growing Operations team in Hong Kong. The ideal candidate is driven, proactive and motivated to work in a fast paced environment. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!
The role directly supports our Traders by performing reconciliation and control while continuously improving these processes. Supporting our growing trading operations, the Operations Team not only monitors and tracks our trading positions, but also continuously seeks opportunities to improve our systems and methods for doing so, in order to catch inefficiencies sooner and more accurately. The Operations Team obtains knowledge about procedures and processes and actively shares knowledge of new developments with colleagues internally as well as with our Trading and Risk teams globally. Due to the role being part of the broader Risk and Operations (RMO) team, there are opportunities and potential to gain a broader scope within risk management.
What You Will Do
- Responsible for daily trade bookings, resolving settlement issues and to monitor corporate action events for the firm
- Responsible for the daily reconciliation and reporting of all trades, positions, cash holdings, costs and P&L attribution in a timely manner
- Monitor and manage operational workflow and risk throughout the trade lifecycle
- Adopt the use of technology and contribute to projects with the aim of ensuring work processes are optimised
- Working closely with counterparties/custodians/prime brokers to on-board new businesses and resolve daily issues
What You Need to Succeed
- 3 to 5 years of Mid-office/Operations experience preferably from buy-side (Hedge funds, Prop Trading) or Prime brokerage.
- Bachelor Degree in Business, Economics or related field
- Product knowledge in listed equities, ETFs, derivatives and FX
- Familiar with Asian securities markets and the respective rules preferred
- Proficient in Excel, VBA and SQL is required. Python/C# an added advantage
- Ability to process and perform analysis with large datasets
- Excellent communication and problem solving skills
- A proactive, assertive, and flexible personality
- Passion to work in a fast paced working environment
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
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What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015.
Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test.
Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.
At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
