Operations Specialist
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Flow Traders is a global technology-enabled multi-asset liquidity provider and market maker.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders provides continuous on-exchange and off-exchange liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets using proprietary trading technology. Its digital-assets business, active since 2017, includes crypto ETP market making, OTC trading, liquidity provision, and DeFi connectivity.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Join Flow Traders' APAC team in Hong Kong within a first-line controls function focused on trade lifecycle operations, process improvement, automation, trade reporting, and data management.
Requirements
- 3+ years of mid/back-office or operations experience, preferably in proprietary trading, hedge funds, or prime brokerage.
- Ability to read and understand Python, SQL, code, and data structures.
- Experience analysing complex process flows and translating business logic into implementable solutions.
- Understanding of trade lifecycle processes across equities, ETFs, futures, FX, and/or OTC derivatives.
- Experience with reconciliation, clearing, and settlement workflows, plus familiarity with Asian securities markets.
- Comfort using AI-assisted development and productivity tools.
- Ability to analyse large datasets and translate findings into process improvements.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, attention to detail, and task-management skills.
- 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 while liaising with counterparties, custodians, and prime brokers.
- Analyse operational processes, business logic, and data flows to design solutions that reduce manual effort and errors.
- Use AI-assisted development tools, Python, and SQL to build and maintain automated reconciliation, reporting, and control workflows.
- Manage and improve data pipelines supporting control and reporting workflows.
- Support onboarding of counterparties, prime brokers, and market connectivity, including SSI setup and operational readiness testing.
- Contribute to APAC technology and process improvement projects with Technology teams.
- Monitor operational risk, escalate issues, and support root-cause analysis and remediation.