Description

A leading Asia-focused multi-manager hedge fund platform is hiring an Associate into its Investment Control team. This is the front-office-facing seat in the operations organisation - you sit closest to the portfolio managers and traders, and you are the link between the desk and everything behind it.

The role

1. Manual trade capture and booking for macro instruments - rates, FX, credit - executed over chat and voice, including confirmation, allocation, and the downstream feed into risk and P&L
2. Front-office-facing exception handling across the trade lifecycle for equities and derivatives
3. ECM allocation and new-issue support for the equity long/short and market-neutral portfolio managers during live deal periods
4. Ad-hoc PM support: bespoke reporting, position enquiries, corporate-action clarifications, cross-office coordination
5. Acting as the shock absorber between the desks and the wider Investment Control, reconciliation and systems teams
6. Contributing to process improvement and light automation, with the systems automation team

You will have

1. ~5 years in trade support, middle office, trade control, or PM-facing operations. Buy-side or sell-side - both are equally welcome
2. Real comfort in a high-volume, high-tempo, multi-tasking environment. This is a reactive, PM-facing seat and it suits someone who likes it that way
3. Working knowledge of the equities trade lifecycle - capture, allocation, break management, corporate actions
4. Manual macro instrument booking (IRS, NDFs, FX forwards, CDS, TRS) is a strong plus; genuine willingness to learn it is essential
5. Confident, calm and diplomatic communication with portfolio managers and traders under pressure
6. Professional English (Mandarin or Cantonese useful for the Shanghai and Taipei desks)
7. Right to work in Hong Kong at the point of offer, or a strong track record of employer-sponsored Hong Kong visas

Why apply

First-line proximity to a large and growing roster of portfolio managers across market-neutral, long/short, single-country, macro and quantitative strategies - unusually broad exposure for an associate seat. First-line coverage of a brand-new macro build-out, with genuine scope to define the seat as it scales. A reporting line into a senior Investment Control lead with clear line of sight into the COO organisation. An institutional-grade platform with active investment in modernisation, and a business that has grown from a few hundred million to several billion in five years - operations people here have moved into risk, product control and PM-support leadership as it scaled.