What Jobs are available for Trade Settlements in Hong Kong?

Overview

A well-known financial institution is looking for a trade support associate to join their growing business. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in trade support and middle office within financial services.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the entire trade process, including capturing trades, reconciling transactions, managing corporate actions etc
• Support trading desks by investigating discrepancies and resolving issues or questions related to trade bookings and breaks
• Direct support to traders regarding and trading issues
• Ensure proper handling of settlement issues and reconcile trades to prevent failures
• Analyze and resolve trade exceptions promptly, and address inquiries from clients and trading desks
• Create reports on trade activities and issues, escalating important matters as needed
• Participate in special projects, collaborating with teams across functions and globally
• Work with colleagues to develop reporting methods that support new products and business initiatives.

Requirements:

• Over 5 years of experience in a middle office or trade support role in a financial institution
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• Strong proficiency in MS Office applications, particularly Excel
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work well in a team
• Attention to detail and strong communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize under pressure

Interested parties please click Apply Now to submit your CV. For any enquiries and immediate response, please feel free to send you CV or contact Kira Tang at or

Job Title:
Trade Support (Equity Derivatives)

Location:
Hong Kong, Onsite

About this Role:

We are seeking for a Trade Support professional in OTC world and manage the middle-office team.

Job Responsibilities:

• Trade & Process Management
  : Verify OTC derivatives/structured product trades, coordinate front/middle/back offices for trade lifecycle optimization, and resolve trade exceptions.
• Product Support
  : Assist in OTC derivatives/structured product design, support modeling/pricing, and prepare product docs with legal/compliance teams.
• Risk Control
  : Daily monitor market/credit/operational/liquidity risks, assist in stress tests, and support valuation model verification.
• Data & Reporting
  : Prepare trade/risk/portfolio reports, analyze data for business decisions, and maintain middle-office data systems.
• System & Process Improvement
  : Collaborate with IT to optimize systems and drive middle-office process enhancements.
• Team Management
  : Lead the trade support team, set goals, evaluate performance, and develop team members.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's in Finance, Economics, Math, Statistics, or related field.
• 5-8 years of equity derivatives trade support experience; deep OTC/structured product knowledge.
• Proven team management experience.
• Familiar with equity derivatives regulations; strong analytical / problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of options pricing theory and quantitative models for pricing
• Proficiency in Excel (advanced), Bloomberg, Reuters, etc.
• Excellent English (oral/written) and communication skills.

About Fargo Wealth Group

"Simply Light Up Wealth". Fargo Wealth is a digital-first multi-family office focusing on China and the Asia-Pacific, providing next-gen innovators and their families a full range of comprehensive wealth management solutions to create sustainable long-term value.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct product lifecycle management such as valuation reports and margin call
• Liaise with different counterparts within the global offices for resolving trading issues
• Resolve client queries in a timely manner
• Review KYC, settlement status and trade report for process management
• Monitor and enhance control processes related to regulatory reporting
• Engage in various projects and participate in system testing activities
• Liaise with different counterparts for resolving trading issues

Requirements:

• Degree holder in Finance, Mathematics, Sciences, Engineering or related discipline(s)
• At least 3 years middle office/trade support experience
• Previous experience/background in client management, products lifecycle management preferred
• Sensible and good at calculational works
• Excellent command in English and Mandarin would be preferred
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure
• Able to work independently and multitask
• Good communication skills and well-organized

Your new company

• A Reputable Securities Services firm is seeking a seasoned and driven Vice President of Trade Support to join our FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities) business. This is a high-impact role for a trade support professional with deep expertise across asset classes and a passion for operational excellence.

Your new role

• Provide comprehensive trade support and lifecycle management across a wide range of products:

• Equities, Fixed Income, Rates, Credit, Commodities

• Listed and OTC derivatives
• Structured notes and exotic products
• Ensure timely and accurate trade capture, affirmation, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Collaborate closely with front office, middle office, operations, risk, and technology teams to resolve trade-related issues and enhance workflows.
• Drive process improvements and contribute to system upgrades and automation initiatives.
• Maintain strong governance and control standards in line with regulatory and internal policies.

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum 8 years of experience in trade support or related functions within capital markets.
• Solid understanding of trade lifecycle processes and post-trade operations across multiple asset classes.
• Familiarity with structured and exotic products, including their operational nuances.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What you need to do now

• If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Keith Ho now @ Alternatively you can send Keith your CV to If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Your new company

• A Reputable Securities Services firm is seeking a seasoned and driven Vice President of Trade Support to join our FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities) business. This is a high-impact role for a trade support professional with deep expertise across asset classes and a passion for operational excellence.

Your new role

• Provide comprehensive trade support and lifecycle management across a wide range of products:
• Equities, Fixed Income, Rates, Credit, Commodities
• Listed and OTC derivatives
• Structured notes and exotic products
• Ensure timely and accurate trade capture, affirmation, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Collaborate closely with front office, middle office, operations, risk, and technology teams to resolve trade-related issues and enhance workflows.
• Drive process improvements and contribute to system upgrades and automation initiatives.
• Maintain strong governance and control standards in line with regulatory and internal policies.

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum 8 years of experience in trade support or related functions within capital markets.
• Solid understanding of trade lifecycle processes and post-trade operations across multiple asset classes.
• Familiarity with structured and exotic products, including their operational nuances.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What you need to do now

• If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Keith Ho now @ Alternatively you can send Keith your CV to If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Responsibilities
In a Hybrid capacity you will need to learn and serve the needs for the two team: Equity Prime Brokerage (EPB) client facing middle office + Corporate action Middle Office.

• Serve as the main point of contact for a set of clients, conducting regular service level reviews and managing client escalation requests.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) across the trade lifecycle for Asia markets covering Equity and Fixed Income Prime Brokerage (PB).
• Ensure all trades are accurately booked in the Front Office database, justifying any late or amended bookings, and allocated correctly to client accounts.
• Assist with the detection, processing, and booking of corporate action events for equity and bond products, maintaining corporate action information and its impact in internal and booking systems.
• Maintain control over the quality and completeness of recorded data related to trades and corporate actions.
• Understand market specifications on corporate action events across the APAC region and collect elections from trading desks and clients on voluntary events.
• Perform reset payment pre-matching, manage trade-related breaks, and analyze and regularize reported discrepancies.
• Lead the team on daily production and projects, performing second-level checks.
• Assist traders with specific requests by providing effective and innovative solutions.
• Manage client onboarding operationally, including portfolio wrapper setup and reporting configuration.
• Assist with client reporting and respond to client queries related to transactions and corporate actions.
• Streamline booking and corporate action workflows through automation and process review, collaborating with global corporate actions teams.
• Drive initiatives as part of the "Change the Bank" program to improve activities and offerings of the PB franchise.
• Contribute to defining specifications and performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new information systems or booking schemes.
• Document and update procedures related to sensitive processes and controls.
• Liaise with other departments and work closely with teams across regions (Asia, Europe, America) including Traders, Sales,
• Back Office, and IT to ensure seamless operational flow and client experience.
• React promptly to incidents, developing long-term action plans to mitigate risks and improve processes.

Required
Profile required

• Hold a bachelor's or master's degree in finance, Business Administration, Computer Science or similar discipline is preferred.
• Demonstrate the ability to handle topics from multiple streams in a hybrid capacity.
• Demonstrate the ability to quickly setup rapport with teams and build a network within the firm.
• Excellent communication skills: with an ability to use these collaboratively, explain and challenge, as appropriate.
• Track record of working with multiple stakeholders (traders, sales, other middle office, clients, IT teams, Back office and custodian)
• Team Player: Facilitate cooperation between colleagues.
• Accuracy, swiftness, ability to work under pressure in trading environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate an ambition to build a career in the financing industry.
• Demonstrate a control mindset and risk analysis capabilities.
• Demonstrate equity and derivative product knowledge.
• Demonstrate a strong drive to achieve results.
• Demonstrate your abilities to improve our client service.
• Demonstrate a responsible, proactive and positive mindset.
• Think out of the box, propose new ideas and solutions on identified problems or existing processes for the sake of continuous improvement.
• Fluent English is mandatory.

Behavioral Skills

• Team Spirit - Collective mindset: I favour the company's best interest over my team's results
• Team Spirit - Synergies: I make developing synergies within the Group a priority
• Team Spirit - Open mindset/Respect: I listen and share my views and my expertise in an open mode
• Responsibility - Performance: I generate outstanding individual and collective performance
• Innovation - Thinking out of the box/Creativity: I encourage and demonstrate positive out of the box thinking
• Commitment - Inspiration/Vision: I inspire others by communicating a clear vision and strategy

Business insight
Our Culture:
At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. Please visit our APAC career website: for more information.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I):
Our mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

Check out our DE&I initiatives:

Hybrid Work Environment:
Societe Generale offers a hybrid work arrangement that offers employees the flexibility to work remotely, as well as on-site, in order to promote interaction and collaboration with colleagues while adhering to all SG standard protocols. Hybrid work arrangements vary based on business area. The applicable Business lines will determine and communicate the work arrangements that best meet their business needs.

Diversity and Inclusion
We are an
equal opportunities employer
and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and
promoting all talents
, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.

Our client, an international brokerage, asset management company, now is hiring a Trade Support for their Trading Team, the job requirements is as follow: -

Job Responsibilities/Requirements:

• Degree holder, fresh graduate Korean student or minimum 1 to 4 years financial services experiences.
• Assist the trade floor on sales supporting roles, prepare and distribute daily market comments, trading ideas and prepare reports.
• Support the sales team on their sales activities, and manage internal operations, ensuring smooth communicate with the middle / back office.
• Provide backup / coverage to sales team of customer services, liaise with revenant counterparties and internal stakeholders, and to handling back-to-back swap operations.
• Keep a close track of the market movement, pricing, checking paper trades & paper works, prepare account opening, and clear outstanding issues.
• To prepare marketing data, filter news flows for relevant market information, attend departmental meetings and client ' meetings.
• Fluent of Korean and English languages is a must.
• Very stable working hours, 5 days' work per week, excellent employee benefits and year-end bonus.
• Client will provide on job training to a potential candidate who is willing to join in financial industry.
• Candidate with MORE relevant experiences, client will offer senior post with higher package.

Interested candidates, please send full resume (in MS WORD format), to - with current and expected salaries to us or please click APPLY NOW or contact Mrs Yuen for private discussions.

Ref: 2375

Information provided by candidates with be treated in strict confidence and will only be used for recruitment related purposes. All information on unsuccessful candidates with be deleted from our files within 6 months.

Primary Objectives:

Trade Support 's mission is to ensure all new trades and life cycle events are correctly reflected in the relevant risk management systems. As the first link in the Operations chain, Trade Support is also the first level of control for the business:

• for Front Office/Risk to have a clear and accurate view of positions and risks,
• for Back Office to ensure smooth settlement for all trades,
• for Product Control to do valuation and P&L reporting in due time.

Responsibilities:

• Verify trade booking and ensure that trades are properly booked to Risk Management Systems, provide justifications for any late bookings and amendments,
• Monitoring, processing and booking of corporate action events for equity and FICC products,
• Monitoring and booking of life cycle events in systems for BO to handle accurate settlements, including KO, maturity, fixing, early terminations, etc,
• Streamline the different workflow through automation and process review,
• Position reconciliation with different counterparties,
• Products Covered: Total Return Swaps, P notes, Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currencies Swaps, Cash Equity, Bonds, Repo/Reverse Repo, CDS, Futures, Vanilla Options, Accumulator, Range Accrual, etc.

Qualifications:

• Previous exposure to Equity Derivative products and/or Fixed Income products is essential,
• Basic knowledge on Corporate Action and life cycle events (type of events, impact),
• Ability to work under pressure in trading environment,
• Strong and sharp analytical and problem-solving skills,
• Excellent communication skills; required to work with various internal partners (Traders, Risks, Other Middle Offices, Product Control teams, Back Offices, IT),
• Fluent in written and spoken English, any other languages would be a plus,
• Knowledge of programming is an advantage,
• Bachelor Degree holder or above, preferably in Banking & Finance related disciplines.

We offer an attractive remuneration package and fringe benefits to the right candidate. Interested applicants please send detailed resume stating present and expected salaries, as well as date of availability, by clicking "Apply" or by sending it to

(Data collected will be kept strictly confidential and used for recruitment purpose only.)

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Our client is a well-known global investment firm. As an Associate, Investment Operations, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth execution of financial transactions and investment processes.

Client Details

Our client is a well-known global investment firm. As an Associate, Investment Operations, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth execution of financial transactions and investment processes.

Description

• Reconcile daily transactions and positions, including monthly market value and accrual reports, with prompt investigation and resolution of any discrepancies in coordination with custodians, brokers, and other counterparties.
• Identify and resolve trade settlement issues by engaging with custodians, brokers, and traders.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate accurate trade booking for Institutional Offers, IPOs, and Secondary Placements.
• Manage proxy voting instructions, security set-up, maintenance, and associated reporting tasks.
• Monitor and analyze corporate action events; prepare timely and accurate communications.
• Oversee client flows, maintaining efficient and responsive communication with the Front Office.
• Support bespoke client reporting deliverables, ensuring timely and precise output.
• Coordinate regularly with portfolio managers, traders, and custodians to address operational needs.
• Prepare documentation in support of internal and external audits.
• Maintain frequent communication across global teams (Investment, Trading, Relationship Management, IT, Senior Management) and with external stakeholders (custodians, clients, service providers).

Profile

• Bachelor's degree, ideally in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance.
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong attention to detail with excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Adept at managing shifting priorities and meeting deadlines in a dynamic environment.

Job Offer

• Excellent exposure
• Global investment firm

To apply online please click the 'Apply' button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact on