Director - Exchange Operations

• Provide technical support activities for the production environment
• Optimise the company infrastructure architecture in cloud environment to achieve best network performance
• Debug kernel performance and resolve production issues in real time
• Dive into difficult network or Linux related problems
• Participate in infrastructure architecture design for office expansion purposes

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other technical discipline 
• 10 years of working experience in Linux production support and Cloud environment, with a good understanding of Linux system administration, and troubleshooting and incident response
• Excellent Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, scripting) experience, including Cloud infrastructure management (AWS/ALI/Oracle setup and configuration)
• Multi-cloud platform experience (AWS, ALI, Oracle, Azure) would be advantageous 
• A good understanding of Networking (leased lines, latency optimisation) and monitoring and alerting systems (setup and enhancement)
• Experience in OS kernel tuning (C-group, IRQ affinity, low-latency optimisation in Cloud/physical machines)
• Documentation and knowledge transfer capabilities (JIRA/Confluence for project management and documentation would be a bonus) 
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management skillset

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the global settlement function, including trade, deposit, and withdrawal operations across multiple asset classes
• Strengthen governance, risk management, and compliance frameworks
• Champion automation, implement system enhancements to improve efficiency and reduce manual work
• Be the SME for complex settlement issues, partnering with Treasury, Finance, Risk, and Compliance, as well as banks, custodians, and regulators
• Provide strategic oversight, reporting, and leadership to support team development and operational excellence

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Business, Accounting, or related field
• 10+ years of Settlement/Operations experience, with TradFi/large financial institutions managerial experience
• Experience in FinTech, Crypto, or Digital Asset Exchanges will be an additional bonus 
• Excellent experience in Governance, Risk, and Control Frameworks as well as with Settlement Systems, Automation tools, and cross-border team management
• Strong knowledge of settlement practices across FX, securities, and/or digital assets
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with fluency in Mandarin and English

My client, a leading global WealthTech firm, comprised of high-calibre Software Engineers, Quant Strategists and Technical Programme Managers, is expanding their Hong Kong setup considerably. This additional hire will suit a Technical Project Manager or Technical Business Analyst looking to step up into a PM role. The successful candidate will have in-depth experience working on cutting-edge tech implementation projects and programmes within the finance industry.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the platform, from requirements and documentation through design, testing, and production rollout.

• Create and maintain project documentation across all phases, including requirements, solution artefacts, governance materials, and status reports, in line with project and compliance standards.

• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across Engineering, Solution Architecture, UI/UX, SRE and Testing

• Manage multiple projects in parallel, balancing priorities, dependencies, and resources while maintaining delivery quality.

• Proactively resolve or escalate risks and issues using established governance and escalation processes to minimise delivery impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with at least 5 years of experience managing/delivering technology projects

• Solid hands-on experience in Agile delivery, including requirements gathering and cross-team collaboration.

• Experience with MS SQL, RESTful APIs, Git and DevOps tools or practices, with the ability to engage effectively with engineering teams and understand solution designs.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to manage expectations and communicate clearly.

• Proven documentation skills, including project status reports and user stories, with close attention to detail, and the ability to contribute insights that support delivery excellence and continuous improvement.

My client, a leading international institution in Hong Kong is seeking a Data savvy Finance Manager to join their expanding team in Hong Kong. 

Responsibilities 

• Continuously track business performance against targets through core KPIs.

• Develop financial models and business cases to support new products and projects funding approval.

• Keep track of financial performance and conduct post implementation review.

• Highlight emerging performance issues, including variances caused by system behaviour or unexpected market dynamics.

• Provide actionable insights to support timely management decisions and strategic adjustments to facilitate business growth.

• Develop and maintain databases to meet business needs and ensure data accuracy and availability.

• Perform data mining and analysis to support ad-hoc analytical tasks, incident management and strategic programmes.

• Collaborate with IT and other stakeholders to specify user and business requirements for system development.

• Assist the Team Lead in monitoring progress identify potential risks or bottlenecks and propose solutions.

Requirements 

• Degree in  Business Administration / Accounting / Finance Master's degree is a plus

• Professional qualifications such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant are preferred

• Minimum of 5 years experience in Finance, Data Analysis, Data Mining, or related disciplines

• Strong proficiency in SQL for data querying and analysis

• Hands‑on experience with BI tools, including Tableau or Power BI

• Proficiency in data wrangling using Python or Alteryx is a plus

• Experience in streamlining workflows and automating reports and financial models, with a proficiency in database structures

• Manage trade entry and affirmation process (via PMS), and monitor trade settlements
• Custodian and Prime Broker reconciliations
• Liaise with prime brokers, fund administrator and system vendors on break resolution
• Cash management - margin and collateral, facilitating payments
• Monitor short positions and fulfil disclosure obligations

• Weekly NAV estimates
• Point of liaison with prime brokers and fund administrator
• NAV and P/L review, ensure accuracy of accounting entries against fund administrator
• Checker of monthly fund valuation
• Calculating investor and distributor fee rebates

• Monitor fund capital activities
• Streamline operations process, look for deficiencies and improvements.
• Work along with Risk and Finance on operations control and annual fund audit
• Ad-hoc projects (e.g. investors due diligence, broker onboarding)

• Degree holder in Accounting and Finance or related discipline
• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in Fund Accounting and/or Hedge Fund Operations
• Basic understanding of financial products (Options, Fixed Income, Swaps, NDFs)
• Solid knowledge/experience with PMS systems, proficient in Microsoft Office, with Python skills being highly beneficial
• Highly motivated with a “can do” attitude, ability to multi-task and innovative, with great attention to detail.
• Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin