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, and practical experience in VBA, SQL and Python.
• 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

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

• Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage
• In-house lounge with a bar, pool table and console games
• Daily catered breakfast and lunch with healthy snacks and drinks available throughout the day
• In-house hairdresser and massage therapist
• Personal trainers, weekly boot camps and a subsidized gym membership
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
• Global rotations between our offices worldwide
• and more!

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