Senior Trade Operations Lead

Join our Hong Kong office as a Senior Trade Operations Analyst supporting a fast-paced trading environment across equities and equity derivatives. Operations are critical to our trading effort—ensuring trades, positions, cash and P&L are accurate, controlled, and scalable.

This is a senior role: you’ll stay hands-on with daily trade control while also leading initiatives, acting as an escalation point, and mentoring others as the desk and product set grow. You’ll drive improvements through better controls, smarter automation, and strong cross-functional partnerships with Trading, Tech, and external counterparties.

What you’ll do

• Own day-to-day trade control: capture, reconcile and validate trades/transactions/positions/cash; resolve breaks quickly and permanently through root-cause fixes.
• Own P&L and positions: maintain intra-day and end-of-day views; investigate variances and drive corrective and preventative actions.
• Operate within controls and compliance: execute processes within exchange/regulatory frameworks; support required submissions and maintain audit-ready evidence.
• Support execution integrity: under trader instruction, use algorithmic tools; keep OMS/EMS, exchange systems, internal applications and spreadsheets accurate and in sync.
• Partner closely with traders, dealers, brokers, clearing, middle/back office and tech to keep information flowing and issues unblocked.
• Act as a first-line escalation point for complex breaks/incidents; prioritise by risk/materiality and drive issues to closure with clear communications.
• Streamline and automate workflows, reconciliations and reporting using Excel/VBA/Python/SQL; reduce manual touchpoints, error rates and time-to-resolve.
• Build scalable desk infrastructure: SOPs, checklists, dashboards and preventative controls that improve reliability, transparency and auditability as the desk grows.
• Lead delivery of initiatives: onboard new markets/products and run operational projects from scoping through rollout, including UAT, change management and documentation.
• Mentor and develop junior analysts/new joiners through structured onboarding, shadowing, coaching, and knowledge-sharing (runbooks/playbooks).
• Raise standards through consistent documentation, process discipline, and continuous improvement habits across the team.

• Experience: Strong background (typically ~7+ years) in trade operations/desk support within equities and equity derivatives, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of core processes in a trading environment.
• Product knowledge: Strong grasp of equities, options and equity derivatives across the full trade lifecycle; futures and fixed income familiarity a plus.
• Controls mindset: High bar for accuracy, data integrity and auditability; balances speed with rigour and implements preventative controls—not just fixes.
• Issue ownership: Proven ability to prioritise by risk/materiality, escalate early, and drive complex breaks/incidents to closure with clear root-cause analysis and durable remediation.
• Tools: Proficient with Bloomberg and advanced Excel; able to improve workflows through practical automation using VBA/Python/SQL (highly regarded). Not required to be a full-time developer but must be able to reduce manual touchpoints and error rates.
• Delivery: Comfortable leading operational initiatives end-to-end (scoping, stakeholder alignment, testing/UAT, rollout, documentation), including onboarding new markets/products and scaling desk controls/reporting.
• Leadership & mentorship: Demonstrated ability to mentor others through onboarding, coaching and knowledge-sharing (runbooks/playbooks), and to act as an informal escalation point—without requiring formal people management.
• Collaboration: Clear communicator who builds positive relationships across trading floors, technology teams and external partners; able to influence outcomes in fast-moving situations.
• Quick to action: Calm under pressure; escalates early when appropriate, follows through to closure, and communicates progress clearly.
• Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-moving, evolving environment; stays hands-on while also leading initiatives and uplifting standards.
• Traits: Analytical, detail-oriented and organised; accountable, proactive, and continuous-improvement minded; a reliable, flexible teammate with good judgement

What’s in it for you

• Our flat hierarchy enables you to drive meaningful impact, by leveraging your expertise and taking ownership.
• Greenfield impact: newly created role as we scale across APAC.
• Private healthcare and wellness initiatives.
• Daily office lunch allowance
• Employee Assistance and Education Assistance Programs 
• Matched donations and corporate discounts

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

What we do 

 Susquehanna’s deep integration of trading, technology and quant research makes us experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives. We handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day as both a market maker and market taker. Our efforts provide liquidity and ensure competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized to allow for a deep understanding of the unique drivers of each asset class.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to recruiting@sig.com. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.

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