APAC Structured Products Middle Office Lead

Pinpoint Asia; Hong Kong Island; On-site; HKD 550,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Investment Bank is seeking a Middle Operations Officer to support APAC markets, focusing on trade validation, risk controls, and lifecycle events across multiple product lines. The role emphasizes collaboration with traders, sales desks, and global partners to safeguard complex trade flows.

Candidates should have 5+ years in trade support or middle office, a Finance/Business degree, and proficiency with analytics tools like Python and VBA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct professional experience in trade support, middle office, or market operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or equivalent.
• Understanding of structured and derivative transaction flows and control environments.
• Knowledge of derivatives pricing models, risk management principles, and complex financial products.
• Proficiency in productivity, automation, and analytics tools (Teams, Co-pilot, Alteryx, Python, VBA).
• Strong communication and stakeholder management with traders, sales, and partners.

Responsibilities

• Perform independent trade validation and review for complex exotics and structured transactions following initial trade capture to maintain high transactional data quality.
• Support daily trading and sales desk activities across Equity, Equity Derivatives, Structured Loans, FX, and Rates product lines across Asia.
• Monitor and manage trade exceptions, lifecycle events, and clearing activities while supporting end-to-end front-to-back operational controls.
• Oversee and remediate Start-of-Day and End-of-Day processing batches to ensure accurate daily Profit & Loss calculations and complete risk analyses.
• Deliver robust middle-office control services to upstream and downstream business partners to safeguard institutional trade flows.
• Drive strategic change, systems implementation, and new regulatory initiatives alongside global stakeholders to enhance automation and business capacity.

Skills

Structured product knowledge

Trade risk management

Stakeholder management

Derivative transactions

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Co-pilot

Alteryx

Python

VBA Macros

Job description

Global Investment Bank is seeking a Middle Operations Officer to support APAC markets, focusing on trade validation, risk controls, and lifecycle events across multiple product lines. The role emphasizes collaboration with traders, sales desks, and global partners to safeguard complex trade flows.

Candidates should have 5+ years in trade support or middle office, a Finance/Business degree, and proficiency with analytics tools like Python and VBA.