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Global Head of Operations and Middle Office

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Flow Traders

Flow Traders provides continuous liquidity across global financial markets through technology-enabled market making and trading services.

Jacob Bontiusplaats 9 Amsterdam NL-NH NL 1018 LL, Netherlands
About Flow Traders

Flow Traders helps institutional clients and market participants access liquidity across multiple asset classes through continuous market making services. You can trade ETPs, digital assets, fixed income, commodities, and FX products with enhanced execution quality. Flow Traders reduces trading costs and increases market efficiency through proprietary technology and global presence.

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About the Role

You will lead the global operations strategy and coordinate operations and middle-office teams across regions. You will oversee post-trade execution, settlement, reconciliation, reporting, automation, controls and operational risk, advise senior leadership, manage vendors, and improve efficiency and service quality.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of financial services experience
  • At least 5 years of leadership experience
  • Trading operations expertise
  • Middle-office expertise
  • Multi-asset-class experience
  • Distributed team management
  • Regulatory framework experience in Europe, North America and Asia
  • Technology platforms knowledge
  • Data flows knowledge
  • Automation solutions knowledge
  • Communication skills
  • Influencing skills
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Responsibilities

  • Lead the global operations strategy
  • Advise the board and senior leadership
  • Prepare operations for market expansion
  • Manage multi-regional operations and middle-office teams
  • Establish KPIs and quality controls
  • Develop operational risk and regulatory control frameworks
  • Oversee trade lifecycle controls, settlement, reconciliation and reporting
  • Lead automation, digital transformation, data and AI initiatives
  • Improve post-trade infrastructure
  • Reduce operational workload and improve efficiency
  • Manage relationships with clearing banks, custodians, prime brokers and vendors
  • Provide operational insights to the board
  • Mitigate operational risks across jurisdictions

Benefits

  • Flow Academy
  • Domain-related conferences
  • Daily catered lunch
  • Coffee
  • Stocked kitchen and snack bar
  • In-house bar and lounge
  • Arcade
  • Table tennis
  • Billiards
  • Game consoles
  • Company boat
  • In-house gym
  • Nutritionist sessions
  • Personal trainer sessions
  • Bi-weekly massages
  • Annual company trip
  • Company events