Senior Trade Operations Lead
On-siteHong Kong, Hong Kong
Job Summary
Capture, reconcile, and validate trades, positions, and cash while resolving breaks through root-cause fixes. Maintain intra-day and end-of-day P&L views, investigating variances to drive corrective actions. Execute processes within exchange and regulatory frameworks, ensuring audit-ready evidence and system accuracy across OMS, EMS, and external applications. Act as a first-line escalation point for complex incidents, prioritizing by risk to drive closure with clear communication. Streamline workflows using Excel, VBA, Python, and SQL to reduce manual touchpoints and error rates. Build scalable desk infrastructure including SOPs, checklists, and dashboards to improve reliability as the desk grows. Mentor junior analysts through structured onboarding, coaching, and knowledge-sharing. Lead operational initiatives from scoping through rollout, including UAT and change management for new markets or products.
Required Qualifications
- Strong background in trade operations/desk support within equities and equity derivatives
- demonstrated end-to-end ownership of core processes in a trading environment
- Strong grasp of equities, options and equity derivatives across the full trade lifecycle
- High bar for accuracy, data integrity and auditability
- Proven ability to prioritise by risk/materiality, escalate early, and drive complex breaks/incidents to closure with clear root-cause analysis and durable remediation
- Proficient with Bloomberg
- Proficient with advanced Excel
- able to improve workflows through practical automation using VBA/Python/SQL
- Comfortable leading operational initiatives end-to-end (scoping, stakeholder alignment, testing/UAT, rollout, documentation), including onboarding new markets/products and scaling desk controls/reporting
- Demonstrated ability to mentor others through onboarding, coaching and knowledge-sharing (runbooks/playbooks), and to act as an informal escalation point—without requiring formal people management
- Clear communicator who builds positive relationships across trading floors, technology teams and external partners
- able to influence outcomes in fast-moving situations
- Calm under pressure
- escalates early when appropriate
- follows through to closure
- communicates progress clearly
- Thrives in a fast-moving, evolving environment
- stays hands-on while also leading initiatives and uplifting standards
- Analytical
- detail-oriented and organised
- accountable, proactive, and continuous-improvement minded
- a reliable, flexible teammate with good judgement
- Must be able to reduce manual touchpoints and error rates
Desired Qualifications
- futures and fixed income familiarity
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