Associate Director / Director, Equity Derivatives Operations, Operations

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Provide senior day-to-day support to the Head of Equity Derivatives Operations, including prioritisation, coverage, escalation management and team guidance. 
• Oversee operational support for Delta One, Prime Services, Equity Finance, exotic and flow derivatives, structured products and listed derivatives. 
• Ensure accurate and timely trade capture, validation, confirmation, settlement and lifecycle processing, including resets, fixings, corporate actions, financing, expiries and early terminations. 
• Provide end-to-end oversight of services delivered by Derivatives Operations, Collateral, Cash Operations, Asset Services, Reference Data, Controls and Reconciliations, and offshore or shared-service teams. 
• Maintain clear service ownership, hand-offs, cut-off times and escalation routes. Review service levels, aged items, settlement failures, control exceptions and recurring incidents, and drive corrective action. 
• Oversee trade, position, cash, settlement, broker, counterparty, bank or nostro, accounting-interface and system-to-system reconciliations. 
• Ensure breaks are assigned, investigated, evidenced, aged and resolved promptly, with material or recurring items escalated and subject to root-cause analysis. 
• Maintain a strong first-line control environment covering maker-checker reviews, payments, access, static data, manual adjustments, exception management and evidence retention. 
• Lead or support incident management, risk reporting, control assessments, audit and regulatory reviews, and remediation of identified weaknesses. 
• Represent Equity Derivatives Operations in new-product approvals, system changes, testing and process improvements, ensuring controls and reconciliations are in place before launch. 
• Build effective relationships with Trading, Sales, Structuring, Finance, Product Control, Risk, Technology, Legal, Compliance and external service providers. 
• Coach team members, support cross-training and contribute to succession planning and business continuity. 

Requirements

• At least 10 years of relevant Equity Derivatives Operations, Middle Office or Trade Support experience, including senior-level responsibility. 
• Strong knowledge of over-the-counter and listed equity derivative products, booking models and lifecycle events. 
• Demonstrated experience in service oversight, reconciliations, operational controls and complex issue resolution. 
• Experience supporting new products, system implementation, process migration, control design and testing. 
• Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and make decisions under pressure. 
• Advanced Excel and experience with automation or data-analysis tools are advantageous. 
• Fluency in English is required. Cantonese and Mandarin are advantageous.

Key Contact/Engagement points for the role:

Internal:

• Operations
• Front Office
• IT
• Finance
• Credit Risk/Market Risk
• Product Control
• Internal Audit
• Legal and Compliance

External:

• Clients
• Custodian banks / Prime Brokers

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