Operations Specialist
Flow Traders is a global liquidity provider that delivers continuous liquidity in financial markets, with deep expertise in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The firm lowers overall trading costs for market participants by providing higher execution quality across global exchanges and trading platforms.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders is a technology-driven liquidity provider operating in global financial markets, with a particular focus on Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The company combines deep ETP expertise, cutting-edge technology, and strong risk management to increase transparency and efficiency across the financial ecosystem, serving market participants such as exchanges and trading platforms across Europe, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. Beyond its core trading business, Flow Traders operates a dedicated strategic capital investment unit that partners with companies aligned to its mission of transparency and efficiency in financial markets, and it runs the Flow Traders Foundation, a philanthropic initiative focused on fighting poverty.
Skills
About the Role
You will join a leading proprietary trading firm's APAC team in Hong Kong as an Operations Specialist. You will work within a first-line controls function that goes beyond traditional mid/back-office execution, deeply understanding process flows and business logic, designing better solutions, and leveraging AI and other tools to implement them. You will have opportunities to broaden your scope into trade reporting and data management as the function grows.
Requirements
- 3+ years of mid/back-office or operations experience, preferably within a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or prime brokerage
- Strong technical literacy: ability to read, understand, and reason about code (Python, SQL) and data structures
- Demonstrated ability to analyse complex process flows, understand underlying business logic, and translate that into implementable solution designs
- Solid understanding of trade lifecycle processes across listed equities, ETFs, futures, FX, and/or OTC derivatives
- Experience with reconciliation frameworks, clearing and settlement workflows, and familiarity with Asian securities markets and their respective rules
- Comfort working with AI-assisted development and productivity tools to accelerate solution delivery
- Ability to work with large datasets, perform analysis, and translate findings into actionable process improvements
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with a proactive, assertive, and flexible approach
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage a diverse range of tasks efficiently in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Responsibilities
- Perform daily trade reconciliations, position monitoring, P&L attribution, and cash/cost reconciliation across multiple asset classes and prime brokers
- Investigate and resolve trade breaks, settlement issues, and corporate action events, liaising with counterparties, custodians, and prime brokers
- Analyse existing operational processes end-to-end, map business logic and data flows, and design improved solutions that reduce manual effort and error rates
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools and scripting (Python, SQL) to build and maintain automated reconciliation, reporting, and control workflows
- Manage and improve data pipelines that feed control and reporting workflows, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of operational data
- Support the onboarding of new counterparties, prime brokers, and market connectivity, including SSI setup and operational readiness testing
- Contribute to the APAC delivery of global technology and process improvement projects, collaborating with Technology teams to define requirements and validate outputs
- Monitor and manage operational risk throughout the trade lifecycle, escalating issues proactively and contributing to root-cause analysis and remediation