A unique opportunity for experienced production management professionals to build strong relationship with the key business stakeholders and manage a high-profile support team in Asia; Great remuneration and fantastic growth potentials.

A leading global investment bank is looking for:
– VP, Asia Equity Derivative Support Team Lead
– Senior Associate / AVP, Asia Equity Derivative Senior Support
– There are two head counts for this role
– Candidates who are not as senior will be considered for the Senior Production Support role

Main Function:
The Equities Derivatives team manage the production environment for the firm’s equity derivatives applications globally, covering volatility, exotics, convertible bonds; fund linked and index arbitrage trading with the team being responsible for:
– The delivery of technology initiatives around the core Equity Derivatives trading system, to a variety of business areas: Front Office Trading and Sales, Market Risk, Product Control and Operations
– The delivery of front office trading tools
– The delivery of an Exotics system for pricing and risk valuation of those trades that exceed the specifications of the core trading system
– Support of structured products market making system which currently covers 4 major Asia exchanges for 4 different products
– Support of ecommerce flow products STP systems used by internal and external clients

Main Duties:
A member of the Equities Derivatives Application Management team in Hong Kong or Japan, the candidate will have the following responsibilities:
– Provide hands-on support for mission critical Equities Derivatives Technology during Asian hours, based in Hong Kong or Japan
– Play a key role in strategic derivative system implementation consultancy to improve supportability
– Develop specialist knowledge in relevant systems, sharing that knowledge, as required, with global teams
– Liaise with business and IT counterparts on potential process improvements
– Liaise with development teams on future applications and improvements
– Take ownership of issues through to resolution or escalation, as appropriate
– Pro-actively improve the quality of systems and service, and increase business value
– Undertake projects as required, including, but not restricted to, the following areas: – capacity and performance management, monitoring initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, web based tools, reporting and documentation
– Uphold and champion policies, procedures and standards

Experience Required:
– Trading technology experience in a related front-office application support role within investment banking Derivative experience / knowledge is highly preferred
– Experience of managing application support team in investment banking environment on trading floor
– Experience of partnering with offshore IT team on large batch environment with tight downstream SLA requirements
– Excellent technical and business troubleshooting approach

Experience Preferred:
– Experience of risk management, PNL and pricing applications within a derivatives environment
– Knowledge of market making on major exchanges

Skills Required:
– Experience of Unix and/or Windows, SQL , database (Oracle, Sybase), Scripting (e.g Perl/shell, JavaScript, vbscript)
– Excellent communicator, good with users, able to work well in a cross-disciplined team and alone with minimum supervision
– Pro-active, thorough, organized and energetic
– Excellent problem solver with a commitment to thorough root cause analysis and business process
– ITIL knowledge, Autosys
– Equity derivative product knowledge is preferred
– Good team player
– Ability to work under pressure and continue to support users and applications